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  • Cassiopea research by Claire Rowe - 'Seeking sun-baking, bottom-dwelling, upside-down jellyfish'
    AMRI

    Seeking sun-baking, bottom-dwelling, upside-down jellyfish

    Monitoring the invasive upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea) in Lake Macquarie.

    Written by Claire Rowe and Dr Stephen Keable / Category AMRI / Published 21 February 2019
    Cnidaria marine invertebrates
  • Echidnas from Featherdale Wildlife Park
    AMRI

    Echidnas in the illegal wildlife trade

    We are now closer to investigating this trade thanks to the first steps in developing a forensic DNA toolbox to determine the source country of short beaked echidnas.

    Written by Alexandra Summerell (Australian Museum) / Category AMRI / Published 21 February 2019
  • Why do birds fly south? Common (Indian) Myna Blog
    AMRI

    Why do birds fly south? Well actually, it turns out they don’t much - in the case of the Common Myna . . .

    Why do birds fly south? Well actually, it turns out they don’t much - in the case of the Common Myna . . .

    Written by Kyle Ewart, Dr Richard Major and Prof Rebecca Johnson / Category AMRI / Published 20 February 2019
    Indian Myna Common Myna Ornithology
  • Hopping to it in the New England Tablelands - blog by Sophie Collins
    AMRI

    Hopping to it in the New England Tablelands

    Surveying frog species on the New England Tablelands to help understand how they are faring.

    Written by Sophie Collins / Category AMRI / Published 19 February 2019
    herpetology
  • Flying-foxes and cicadas - Blog by Helen Smith 2019
    AMRI

    Flying-foxes and cicadas

    Grey-headed Flying-foxes feast on seasonally abundant cicadas.

    Written by Helen M Smith, Linda E Neaves and Anja Divljan / Category AMRI / Published 18 February 2019
  • Luminous by Matty Smith
    Museullaneous

    Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2018 – People's Choice Competition Winner

    One winner was chosen from almost 7,000 entries!

    Category Museullaneous / Published 14 February 2019
  • Members have morning tea in Berrima
    Museullaneous

    Members' day trip to the National Museum of Australia, Canberra

    A fabulous road trip down the Hume.

    Written by Chanele Moss / Category Museullaneous / Published 25 January 2019
    events Members
  • 2018 Marine Invertebrates trip to Russia - Pat Hutchings and Elena Kupriyanova
    AMRI

    Battle against cosmopolitanism

    A trip to Russia on a quest for a type of worm that is reported to be widely distributed.

    Written by Pat Hutchings / Category AMRI / Published 24 January 2019
  • RV Investigator Expedition - November 2018
    AMRI

    Exploring the Deep-sea Life Living on Underwater Mountains

    Four scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute joined a team of researchers from around Australasia on an expedition to explore the deep-sea marine life inhabiting seamounts south of Tasmania.

    Written by Dr Laetitia Gunton, Dr Ingo Burghardt / Category AMRI / Published 17 January 2019
  • Noisy Miner in an urban environment
    AMRI

    Generalists are the most urban-tolerant birds

    We used a novel method, integrating large datasets, to identify the ‘urbanness’ of Australian birds

    Written by Richard Major, Corey Callaghan / Category AMRI / Published 17 January 2019
    Birds AMRI Science
  • Bruce Pascoe
    At The Museum

    Live at the AM: HumanNature 2018 - Bruce Pascoe

    Bruce Pascoe’s ground-breaking research completely reconsiders the notion of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians as hunter-gatherers.

    Written by Abram Powell / Category At The Museum / Published 07 January 2019
    First Nations agriculture history podcast
  • Booroolong Frog (Litoria booroolongensis)
    AMRI

    Missing frog rediscovered on the New England Tablelands of NSW after more than 40 years

    Surveying for the Peppered Tree Frog, we rediscovered the Endangered Booroolong Frog on the Northern Tablelands of NSW.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley (Australian Museum & UNSW) and Timothy Cutajar (Australian Museum & UNSW) / Category AMRI / Published 07 January 2019
  • Rob Nixon, Professor in Humanities at Princeton.
    At The Museum

    Live at the AM. HumanNature 2018 - Rob Nixon

    Environmental martyrs put their bodies and lives on the line. Some activists remain anonymous, while others gain posthumous fame and power, their deaths becoming a rallying call for others to join the cause.

    Written by Abram Powell / Category At The Museum / Published 31 December 2018
    ecology HumanNature environment podcast
  • A Mountain Stream Tree Frog being parasitized by two Sycorax midges – note their abdomens engorged with blood
    AMRI

    Surveying Frogs with the Help of Mosquitos

    Can DNA from the bellies of parasites lead us to rare frogs? We’ve been in the field to find out.

    Written by Tim Cutajar (Australian Museum & UNSW) / Category AMRI / Published 21 December 2018
  • Eastern Banjo Frog  (Limnodynastes dumerilii)
    AMRI

    Surveying the frog diversity of a remarkable corner of the Australian Alps

    The Australian Museum joins a Bush Blitz team to discover the biodiversity of the ACT.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley Christopher Portway (Australian Museum) and Dr Renee Catullo (Australian National University & Australian Museum) / Category AMRI / Published 20 December 2018
    frogs herpetology
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