International Museum Day 2022: The Power of Museums
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/international-museum-day-2022/

Today, Wednesday 18 May 2022, we celebrate International Museum Day.

It’s CSI – frogs edition and we need you!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/its-csi-frogs-edition-and-we-need-you/

Check your frog photos for frog-biting flies and submit them to our study to help us develop a new, DNA based frog detection method.

Socialising to survive
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/socialising-to-survive/

Earlier exits of H. sapiens from Africa were overprinted by the big exit around 60-70,000 years ago. Why was this exodus so successful when the earlier excursions were not? A new study by an international team of scientists confirm that social networking was key to this success.

Looking beyond the headlines: How did snails fare in the 2019-2020 bushfires?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/looking-beyond-the-headlines/

A new study by Australian Museum researchers sheds light on the impacts of the 2019-2020 wildfires on land snails in north-eastern NSW.

Let’s learn in many ways
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lets-learn-many-ways/

The Australian Museum's new multimillion state of the art Burra (eel) learning space aims to take children on a journey within many cultures and sciences to learn the stories, practices and goals we have of looking after this beautiful country we call home.

New Guinean flightless mammals: Overlooked diversity
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/new-guinean-flightless-mammals-overlooked-diversity/

An international project combines community ecology, phylogenetics & morphology to uncover and describe the cryptic species of Mount Wilhelm, the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Hundreds of New Guinean flightless mammals have been sampled – visiting researcher František Vejmělka tells us more.

This month in Archaeology: 2020-21 AMF/AMRI Visiting Research Fellow on the Rock Art Recovery Project
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-2020-21-amf-amri-visiting-research-fellow-on-the-rock-art-recovery-project/

Wayne Brennan, a 2020-21 AMF/AMRI Visiting Research Fellow, discusses how scientists and Aboriginal communities work together on the Rock Art Recovery Project - two ways walking together side by side.

Two new species of the world’s largest flying squirrels discovered in the Himalayas by Australian scientists
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/two-new-species-of-the-worlds-largest-flying-squirrels-discovered-in-the-himalayas-by-australian-scientists/

Australian scientists lead an international team that has described and named two new species of gigantic woolly flying squirrels from the Himalayas.

News from LIRS: a tale of two ichthyophiles: Simon & Chris’ story
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/news-from-lirs-a-tale-of-two-ichthyophiles-simon-and-chris-story/

Each month, a selected blog from Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation is featured at the AM. For this month, we feature a tale of two ichthyophiles.

Primary school students go virtual to explore behind the scenes of Palaeontology
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/Primary-school-students-go-virtual-to-explore-behind-the-scenes-of-Palaeontology/

During their virtual journey students meet AM palaeontologists Dr Matt McCurry and Dr Patrick Smith, who both try to convince you to follow their preferred speciality – vertebrate versus invertebrate fossils!