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Did you know some Australian animals have developed a taste for toad?

The year was 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister and a remarkable association began in the Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates section.

When a frog calls out, what is it saying?

In mid-September three AM scientists, Dr Rebecca Johnson, Dr Tim Flannery and Paul Flemons travelled to Honiara and Gala to participate in two workshops to mark 3 years of co-operation in environmental conservation between the Kwaio and the Australian Museum.

A formal introduction to a skink at home on a single range in inland NSW

How habitat disturbance impacts the diet of a forest-dependent frog species.

Currently, we know that Australian bloodworms, traditionally thought to be a single species, make up at least seven different species.

Due to over exploitation for economic uses, stylasterids are considered threatened with extinction. After 33 dives to 29 sites around Lizard Island and the outer reef, Dr Daniela Pica preliminarily identified the presence of up to 11 species.

Surveying the “roof of Indochina” for two of Vietnam’s most threatened frogs.

An expedition linking scientific and traditional knowledge to document frog species in the mountains of Malaita, Solomon Islands.

Intern Ruby Bruce gives insight into her three weeks at the Australian Museum's innovative wildlife DNA laboratory.

Read pioneering ecologist Professor Lesley Hughes's inspiring speech on the occasion of her acceptance of the 2019 AMRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Over the past few years local leaders Chief Esau Kekeubata and Tommy Esau have worked with the AM to pioneer community-lead conservation in the heart of mountainous Malaita.

Scaly-footed snails from active black smoker chimneys hit the IUCN Red List of endangered species.

The bloodworm, Marphysa sanguinea, originally described from the UK was once thought to be found around the world. New evidence reveals this is not the case, it has a much narrower distribution and there are many more species than previously thought.