Blog archive:
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Closing the gap between species discovery and conservation
Ensuring amphibians new to science are considered in conservation strategies.
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Giant Rats and Monkey-Faced Bats of the Solomon Islands Archipelago
The AM launches an expedition to the Solomon Islands and Bougainville to discover more about fascinating mammals of the western pacific.
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Coral bleaching on Lizard Island: Update
A severe bleaching event continues around the AM's Lizard Island Research Station, with hopes falling temperatures will bring reprieve
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Molecular support for Hydroides amri and the discovery of its mysterious twin
A study not only confirms that Hydroides amri is distinct from Hydroides brachyacantha, but also includes a cryptic species Hydroides nikae.
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A lioness, a seamount and a king: the creativity behind naming three new genera of small crustaceans
Three new genera, 17 new species and records on a further 35 known species, this is not the last word on Maerid Crustaceans
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Lost and found: a Rapa Nui stone tool finds its real home
Geochemical analysis of an obsidian tool mistakenly attributed to Rapa Nui challenges current views about societies in the ancient Pacific.
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Coral bleaching on the doorstep of Lizard Island
The Australian Museum's research station on the Great Barrier Reef witnesses the devastating effects of climate change
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Eyes peeled for the elusive Blind Snake
Serendipity, morphology and museum collections combine to determine a new species of blind snake from the southern Northern Territory.
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Eastern Quolls: Back from the brink?
Renewed hope that a mammal thought extinct on the mainland has been given a second chance.
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Five new frog species discovered in fast-disappearing forests
The forests of central Vietnam adjacent Cambodia are home to five new frog species that have hopefully been discovered in the nick of time
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Translating AMRI research into conservation action
IUCN Red List assessments of several hundred Australian land snail species are currently conducted by AMRI scientists.
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Can frogs help combat the Zika virus?
Healthy frog populations may help keep disease-carrying mosquitos at bay, but not in the way you might expect.
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Zircons galore: an Indo-Pacific Heritage
Zircons are gemstones found along volcanic fields in eastern Australia, Asia and Russia. Research follows the trail of their origins.
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Fossil tube microstructure helps to address evolutionary unknowns of deep-sea tubeworms
Do fossil tetragonal Mesozoic tubes belong to the ancestors of the worms living in the deep sea today?
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And a worm award goes to… an AMRI student!
AMRI's Yanan Sun wins the Best Student Poster Award for her presentation on invasive calcareous tubeworms.
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