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Celebrating AMRI Women in Science
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/celebrating-amri-women-in-science/To celebrate this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are profiling women from the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI).
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Fairy Wrasses and Fairy Tales!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fairy-wrasses-and-fairy-tales/A recent study with Yi-Kai Tea and Joey DiBattista at the Australian Museum uncovers the evolutionary origins of the most species-rich wrasse lineage with the help of an integrative genome-wide dataset.
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Wombat pouch microbes: protecting the young?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wombat-pouch-microbes-protecting-the-young/Marsupials are born without a functioning immune system, yet they manage to survive, how?
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Drought, dung and destruction
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/drought-dung-and-destruction/Dung beetles may not be the first animals to come to mind when thinking about the organisms impacted by the 2019-20 intense bushfires - but perhaps they should. We were recently in Northeast NSW to determine the impacts on dung beetle populations.
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A Sutton Hoo ship rivet, the Australian Museum and a War Hero
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-sutton-hoo-ship-rivet-the-australian-museum-and-a-war-hero/As a result of the new film on Netflix, The Dig, there has been renewed interest in the Anglo-Saxon ship burial site, Sutton Hoo. We have found a surprising link between the 1400-year-old Sutton Hoo burial, the Australian Museum, and a WWII war hero.
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Celebrating Women of the AM
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/international-womens-day-2021/Today is a significant day for the Australian Museum. On this International Women’s Day, the AM has announced the first Indigenous appointment to the AM’s executive leadership team, as we welcome Laura McBride as Director, First Nations.
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The hunt for the not-so-elusive dung beetle
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-hunt-for-the-not-so-elusive-dung-beetle/Last month, Dr Chris Reid and Aidan Runagall-McNaull arrived in Northeast NSW to determine the impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires on dung beetle populations. Now nearing the end of their fieldwork, there is some good news to report.
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Living on the edge! Molecular insight into Sydney’s endangered bandicoot population
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/living-on-the-edge-molecular-insight-into-sydneys-endangered-bandicoot-population/An endangered population of long-nosed bandicoots are inhabiting an iconic Sydney headland – and molecular insights show that they are surviving on the edge.
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To open a can of worms: the complications of hidden biodiversity
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/to-open-a-can-of-worms-the-complications-of-hidden-biodiversity/We are describing our biodiversity at a higher rate than we can teach the next generation of taxonomists – how can we tackle this problem? Dr Pat Hutchings in Australia and Dr Nicolas Lavesque in France show us how, in their experiences of describing Spaghetti worms!
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FrogID Week 2021 – over 37,000 frog records thanks to thousands of citizen scientists
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frogid-week-2021/Using the FrogID app is not just a joyful pastime. It is rapidly gathering the information we need to help understand and conserve Australia’s frogs.
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