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With three pairs of feeding legs instead of the standard two, the seldom found Endevourid amphipod Crustaceans, make you check thrice.

In the biological control of pests, how do we make sure the control agents won’t go AWOL?

A blog series investigating stories and images from the earliest collection of photographs in the Museum's history.

All three species of tiny, pointy snouted, green-blooded frogs from the forests of Vietnam have unique, bird-like calls

Each year the Australian Museum celebrates National Science Week with the Australian Museum Science Festival (AMSF).

Who were the Mexihcah?

AMRI Senior Fellow Dr Jeff Leis receives the most prestigious award in fish systematics

Not much has been written about our oldest surviving mineral collection because for more than 150 years it’s been almost lost to sight.

Find out more here about two very different experiences shared by DigiVols outside of the lab.

The Citizen Science program Streamwatch now has volunteers working in the Australian Museum Entomology lab.

The first expedition to the Simpson Desert by a member of the Museum staff.

How well do captive breeding programs conserve genetic diversity?

The origin and distribution of a little yellow fly is solved after 90 years.

How much do the methods we use matter when monitoring the tiny critters that call the beach home?

Behind the recent announcement of the new NSW state fossil emblem the fossil fish Mandageria fairfaxi lies a truly remarkable story.