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‘Megamonodontium mccluskyi’ is believed to be the largest spider fossil to be found in Australia

Frogs are in trouble. While many of the world’s animal species are now at risk from habitat loss, climate change and other human pressures, frogs are particularly at risk.

Hundreds of scientists from across the country have gathered at the Australian Museum in Sydney for the presentation of the Eureka Prizes. Awarded annually since 1990, the prizes recognise outstanding contributions to science and the public understanding of science.

It has been 50 years since a couple of tents were the humble beginnings of what's become an internationally renowned research station on one of Australia's most remote tropical, tiny islands in the Coral Sea.

A new native "skeleton shrimp" species has been recognised by scientists after a fisherman caught thousands of the tiny invertebrates in the Gippsland Lakes.

Hunter Valley naturalist, the late Athel D'Ombrain, is credited with promoting the marlin tag and release idea.

Australian Museum’s installation is 10 metres long, sports a rainbow Lycra swimsuit and has captured the hearts of many

An album made up of sounds from more than 60 species of Australian frogs is hoping to bring attention to the plight of endangered amphibians

From a pliosaur skeleton now known to Australian museumgoers as Eric to the basalt that built Robert Smithson’s almighty Spiral Jetty, these are stones that really speak

When two burly blokes hustled the director of the Australian Museum down the front steps and out onto the street in 1874, it marked the end of a particularly spicy chapter of the institution's history.

In 1887, Australian Museum scientists undertook a pioneering expedition to Lord Howe Island, a tiny patch of land off the east coast of Australia. Among their many discoveries, they recorded “a large Blatta” – a type of cockroach – under a decaying log.