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How do you weigh an extinct amphibian?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-do-you-weigh-an-extinct-amphibian/

Estimating the mass of a long-extinct animal is a challenging endeavour – and there is often no “one best method” of doing so. But Australian Museum, UNSW and UNE scientists have just helped us answer the question, in a newly published case study: how do you weigh an extinct amphibian?

Published 21 November 2022
Recognising the indispensable: the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/excellence-in-research-software/

The Australian Research Data Commons Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software celebrates the invisible yet critical role that software plays in modern research.

Published 30 November 2022

Eureka Prizes Research Software
Five Things: How to help save the frogs
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/help-save-frogs/

Listen to journalist and author, Ali Gripper, as she sits down with Dr Jodi Rowley for an intimate Q&A on Jodi’s life's work and to learn five things we can do to make our gardens frog-friendly.

Published 06 March 2023

audio recording frogs FrogID
Our time at sea: Discovering the biodiversity of the Indian Ocean Territories
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/-our-time-at-sea/

A team of scientists from the Australian Museum, CSIRO, Museums Victoria Research Institute and Western Australian Museum have recently completed their voyage on CSIRO’s research vessel (RV) Investigator. Find out how this expedition helped uncover secrets of the deep seamounts of the IOT.

Published 30 January 2023
My museum: Ross Pogson
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/My-museum-Ross-Pogson/

As the Australian Museum's new Minerals Gallery opens to the public, we meet Ross Pogson – the minerals and rocks expert who has been the caretaker of the mineralogy collection since 1979.

Published 05 December 2022

Minerals Gallery collections
Spotting fossil anomalies
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/spotting-fossil-anomalies/

Russell Bicknell, our 2021/22 Australian Museum Foundation/Australian Museum Research Institute Visiting Research Fellow, recently explored the trilobites in the Australian Museum palaeontology collection. Russell tells us more about spotting fossil anomalies!

Published 27 March 2023
Out now! New book to identify abundant, diverse and striking decapod crustaceans
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/decapod-crustaceans-out-now/

Crabs, lobsters and prawns are familiar to most people as seafood but are also very important at all steps in the food chain. Few realise just how many different types there are and how difficult it can be to identify them. A newly published book with provides tools for the task!

Published 23 January 2023
Progress Shark
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/progress-shark/

Our giant shark has been transformed as part of Sydney WorldPride’s Rainbow City.

Published 09 February 2023

WorldPride Sharks
FrogID Week 2022 – over 32,000 frog records gathered for research and conservation
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frogid-week-2022/

FrogID Week has once again rapidly gathered data for frog conservation, receiving more than 3 frog records per minute and gathering more than 32,000 frog records from over 4,600 concerned citizen scientists. We are also excited to announce our Top Frogger of 2022!

Published 23 February 2023
Gobsmacking goby fish species found in museums
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/gobsmacking-gobies/

An exquisite new species of goby has just been described – and it was found in a museum! A new publication co-authored by Dr Yi-Kai Tea, the Australian Museum’s Chadwick Biodiversity Research Fellow, describes these showstopping fishes and highlights the importance of taxonomic research in museums.

Published 20 March 2023

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru

Come face-to-face with one of the most remarkable gold collections to ever tour the globe in the immersive exhibition, <i>Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru</i> and add-on VR experience.

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Tails from the Coasts

Presented with the National Museum of Singapore, this culturally significant collection of watercolours brings to life extraordinary species and captivating stories.

Special exhibition
Opening Saturday 10 May

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Wild Planet

Welcome to life on Earth. Every one of Earth’s millions of species is unique, but they are all connected through evolution. Come and see life in all its glorious diversity – over 400 animals under one roof!

Permanent exhibition
Open daily

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Minerals

Be dazzled by over 1800 spectacular rocks and minerals in our new Minerals Gallery.

Permanent exhibition
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