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Angels in disguise
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/angels-in-disguise/

Why do some fishes hybridize, while others don’t? A recent collaborative study with the University of Sydney, Australian Museum and University of Queensland, has asked this question of marine angelfishes. They found that hybridisation of these fishes is more widespread than previously thought.

Published 06 August 2020

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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…

Published 18 August 2020
Worms under the hammer
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/worms-under-the-hammer/

Collected thousands of metres below the ocean surface off the coast of Eastern Australia, two new species of deep-sea worm have been discovered. Learn how an unusual auction helped scientists at the Australian Museum and the University Museum of Bergen name these worms.

Published 12 August 2020
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!

Published 14 August 2020
Hopping to it: 200,000 frog records in three years of FrogID
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/hopping-to-it-200000-frog-records-in-three-years-of-frogid/

With the help of citizen scientists, a 3 cm-sized threatened Sydney frog has been verified as the 200,000th record for the Australian Museum’s national FrogID project.

Published 25 August 2020
This month in Archaeology: When did dingoes first come to Australia?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-when-did-dingoes-first-come-to-australia/

For this month’s blog, we examine a paper recently published by Loukas Koungoulos and Melanie Fillios in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, in order to answer the question: when did dingoes first come to Australia?

Published 01 September 2020
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.

Published 25 August 2020
How (not) to name a snail
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-not-to-name-a-snail/

Taxonomists strive to bring order to the chaos we call the diversity of life by naming species and sorting them into higher taxa, like genera and families. Needless to say that this undertaking comes with its own problems.

Published 10 March 2020
Weird and wonderful larva explained
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/weird-and-wonderful-larva-explained/

A strange beetle larva was brought to the Australian Museum. It turned out to be only the third collection of its family in Australia and a new species!

Published 31 March 2020
Triage for Australia's lizards and snakes
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/triage-for-australias-lizards-and-snakes/

Which of Australia’s endangered species need our most urgent attention? This was the question facing a group of conservation biologists, including two scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute, following the most recent round of Red Data Book assessments of our reptiles.

Published 03 September 2020

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