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A fish that suckles its young
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-fish-that-suckles-its-young/

I just read an amazing web page about a fish that suckles its young while they are still inside the female's body.

Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology Part 2
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/professor-stephen-heppell-learning-and-technology-part-2/

My second lot of quick notes from Stephen's parallel session at the Museums Australia 2010 conference. Note these have been cut and pasted from Twitter so are very brief.

Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/professor-stephen-heppell-learning-and-technology/

My quick notes from Stephen talk at the Museums Australia 2010 conference

Natural history specimens as social media stars: Mr Blobby
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/natural-history-specimens-as-social-media-stars-mr-blobby/

Natural history specimens as social media stars? How (and why) did the Australian Museum get into the social media space and what are we doing there?

Pea flowers at the Field of Mars
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/pea-flowers-at-the-field-of-mars/

A walk around the Field of Mars Environment Education Centre with Steve Papp and Pat Spiers last week revealed a plethora of native flowers of many colours and shapes, including pea flowers - all perfect for a field study of pollinators.

Science in the City - A Marathon of Heroes
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/science-in-the-city-a-marathon-of-heroes/

Science in the City (which also expands to Science in the Suburbs and Science in the Bush) is a week long event aimed at High school students of all grade levels. It is designed to encourage them towards an interest in the sciences and to expose them to the diverse field

Life Beyond the Tomb Exhibition Evaluation 2005
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/life-beyond-the-tomb-exhibition-evaluation-2005/

Here's a summary of findings from the Life Beyond the Tomb 2005 exhibition evaluation

How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-would-you-design-an-exhibit-meeting-part-1/

Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.

BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-flyingfish-footage/

If you are a fish, one of the most effective ways to avoid a predator must be to leave the water. Fishes have evolved different strategies to do just that, but few manage to do so as spectacularly as the flyingfishes. It is not uncommon to see a fish glide up to 200 m.

BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-sailfish-feeding/

This amazing underwater footage shows an aggregation of Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, feeding on a school of baitfish.