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Old and new species discovered during the first ever survey of a mysterious family of bristle worms in Australian waters

In most coral reef fishes, larvae are tiny and transparent, and adults large and boldly coloured – but in one species, the opposite is true.

Perched on a hill of a Kimberley island lives Taiwanassiminea phantasma a newly described and rare species of land snail.

Genetic rescue of small inbred populations by outcrossing

Capacity building and the neighbours: teaching insect identification in Papua New Guinea.

Flies from Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia show ancient Gondwanan connections.

A small frog with bright orange eyes has just been discovered from the forested mountains of Vietnam

A pudgy little coffinfish that lives over a kilometre below the surface has just been named.

Human impacts on the ocean may go even further than you know, disrupting the ability of fish larvae to find their way to a safe habitat…

A new technique developed at the Australian Museum allows us to make better use of historical insect collections for DNA barcoding.

Maybe my title is over the top, but identifying some pretty blue beetles proved quite a challenge.

A small but important change in Chinese law would help end the trade in Ivory.

We're working on enabling everyone to identify the rich freshwater mollusc fauna of Australia.

Without taxonomists, we won't know what species we have and what species we're driving to extinction

What makes Australian mammals so interesting?