The (AM) has returned 17 culturally significant sacred objects to Warlpiri ownership, marking an important milestone in a ...

This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking ...

The size and location of the giant kelp forests that once populated swathes of the Victorian coastline largely live on ...

Four sea lions have tested positive for bird flu after the infectious disease spread to a key breeding ground for the ...

The Humpback Whale has distinctive knobbly protuberances on the head and long flippers making this one of the most easily recognised of the large baleen whales. Its name is derived from the hump under ...

As debate continues over its taxonomic identity, there’s no doubting the Mulga Snake’s status as one of Australia’s most formidable snakes. Number of species A number of new species of Mulga Snake ...

Gwardar, Collared Brown Snake. Also more recently Strap-snouted Brown Snake (for P. aspidorhyncha), and Northern Brown Snake (for P. nuchalis).

Leaellynasaura amicagraphica was a tiny ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria (perhaps a juvenile because of its small size). During the Early Cretaceous southeast Victoria lay south of the ...

Sydney, Wednesday 6 May: The Australian Museum (AM) is marking the 100th birthday of its beloved Lifetime Patron, Sir David Attenborough, by offering free entry to the latest exhibition Bloodsuckers: ...

Ancient Egypt's distinctive and well preserved art, in the form of paintings, sculpture, hieroglyphs, pottery, jewellery and architecture, gives us a fascinating glimpse into the daily life, beliefs ...

Sydney, 14 April 2026: A lizard known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as Kungaka “the Hidden One” has been formally described as a new species, acknowledged in research published today in Zootaxa. With ...

Sydney, March 06, 2026: Published today in the Records of the Australian Museum journal, ground-breaking research led by Professor Tim Flannery, Australian Museum Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and ...