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Dots on the map of the Coral Sea
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/dots-on-the-map-of-the-coral-sea/

Dr Penny Berents and Amanda Hay recently embarked on a Coral Sea Voyage through the Coral Marine Park. Read more about their discoveries aboard the Iron Joy!

Meet Africa’s first pygmy seahorse, the Sodwana pygmy seahorse
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/meet-africas-first-pygmy-seahorse-the-sodwana-pygmy-seahorse/

Seahorse scientists have identified a new pygmy seahorse species in Sodwana Bay, South Africa, the first of its kind found in African waters and the Indian Ocean.

This month in Australian Archaeology
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-australian-archaeology/

Join us each month, as Dr Amy Way discusses new research in Australian Archaeology.

Back from the brink but still divided: enhancing resilience of genetic islands of the Lord Howe Woodhen
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/back-from-the-brink-but-still-divided/

Although restricted to a 15 square kilometre island in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, populations of the endangered Lord Howe Island Woodhen are still maintaining social distancing.

New species discovered with the help of fossil enthusiasts!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/new-species-discovered-with-the-help-of-fossil-enthusiasts/

Reports of fossils at a local garbage tip garnered the attention of fossil enthusiasts; these enthusiasts went on to help museum scientists discover two new species of Australian trilobite.

This month in Archaeology: Blue Mountains rock art galleries threatened by fire
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-threatened-by-fire/

Less than 100 km to the west of Sydney, a phenomenal rock art record survives in thousands of Blue Mountains rock shelters. These rock art sites hold significant cultural and heritage values and high research potential.

Prehistoric sea scorpions once terrorised Australia
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/prehistoric-sea-scorpions-once-terrorised-australia/

A new study has revealed an unexpected diversity of fossil sea scorpions (distant cousins of modern-day scorpions) that once swam across Australia, between 390–436 million years ago.

A new “type” of Pig-footed Bandicoot
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-new-type-of-pig-footed-bandicoot/

The original description of the now extinct Australian Pig-footed Bandicoot was based on one specimen, since lost, from which the tail was missing. New research, from the Australian Museum and Western Australian Museum, has nominated a replacement…

Chasing endemic land snails on Lord Howe Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/chasing-endemic-land-snails-on-lord-howe-island/

Climbing high mountains, leaping out of boats, winching out of helicopters … we are prepared to do it all, and more, for endemic snails!

The Leaf-litter Frog mystery in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/leaf-litter-frog-mystery-in-the-cardamom_mountains/

Although Leaf-litter Frogs are found throughout the forests of Southeast Asia, only a single individual had been recorded in the Cardamom Mountains. This has now changed, with the scientific discovery of the Cardamom Leaf-Litter Frog, named in honour of Cambodian Herpetologist Thy Neang.