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Help us understand how Cane Toad calls differ across Australia and around the world. By studying these differences, we can learn more of how they have been able to spread so successfully!

AMRI researchers ran a two-day workshop (11–12 March 2025) at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, aimed to provide the skills required to recognise Australian polychaete families.

Savvy travellers will tell you that the best seat to sit in when you fly into Sydney is the window seat on the left-hand side of the plane.

Professor Shane Ahyong and Julie Ellmers to lead Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI).

Today the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Hawaii announced that Professor Kristofer Helgen has been appointed as its new President and CEO.

The Australian Museum (AM) announced today that Chief Experience Officer Russell Briggs will leave the AM on July 11, 2025, stepping away from full-time work to pursue consulting opportunities.

The seventh annual FrogID Week has once again gathered a vital snapshot for frog conservation thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists.

2025 will mark 15 years of ANSTO’s partnership with the Australian Museum to deliver the ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology.

When the opportunity to partner with a close neighbour and expert in forensic science came about, the Australian Museum jumped at the opportunity.

New research shows that keeping fishers away from some reefs increases their catch of Coral Groupers (aka Coral Trout) on other reefs.

Four paintings from the Australian Museum Balinese Collection are currently on display at AGNSW alongside a short film by Balinese-Australian artist Leyla Stevens.

Scientific innovation and invention can achieve scale when researchers work together with external partners to create real-world improvements – often in new or unexpected ways.

Dive into the fascinating world where art and science collide and explore how palaeontologists bring ancient life back from the canvas of time.

Reports of unusually large Sydney Funnel-web spiders from around Newcastle led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus.

After years of studying snails on Australia’s Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Drs Isabel Hyman and Frank Köhler began to cast their net wider in search of closely related species.