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Eunice dharastii, named after Nelson Bay-based marine scientist Dr David Harasti, has been entered into zoological books as a new species.

A microscope slide that can diagnose cancer, mapping how what we eat affects the environment, and a volunteer effort tracking bushfire damage. These were just a few of the scientific projects recognised at the 2022 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, announced in Sydney.

Researchers ask people in continent to send reports of sick or dead frogs to Australian Museum

Last winter, thousands of dead and dying frogs were found across Australia. Instead of hunkering down and out of sight, frogs were spotted during the day in the open, on footpaths, highways and doorsteps – often in the blazing sun.

The prehistoric artefacts, all made to a similar shape and template, are found in enormous numbers across southern Africa across vast distances

Four of the world's largest sea turtles that are rarely found close to Australia's shore have washed up on the NSW Central Coast over the past couple of weeks in what experts have described as concerning and unusual.

From all accounts, Australia’s blue-grey mouse was a charming little creature. The famous British zoologist Oldfield Thomas of London’s Natural History Museum first described the species in 1910 and named it Pseudomys glaucus.

Bluebottle jellyfish arrive in a thick mass along the tide line at Port Macquarie beaches, and further south at beaches near Taree and Forster.

Fossil analysis is shedding new light on the origins of egg-laying mammals and their arrival on the continent