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Holoplankton
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/plankton/holoplankton/Holoplankton spend their entire lives as part of the plankton. This group includes krill, copepods, various pelagic (free swimming) sea snails and slugs, salps, jellyfish and a small number of the marine worms.
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How are fossils found and excavated?
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/how-are-fossils-found/Finding fossils is a combination of hard work, chance and knowing where to look! Fossils are mostly found where sedimentary rocks of the right age are exposed, such as river valleys, cliffs and hillsides, and human-made exposures such as quarries and road cuttings.
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Drinking Water
https://australian.museum/get-involved/citizen-science/streamwatch/water-catchment/streamwatch-drinking-water/Access to clean drinking water is important for everyone.
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Entomology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/entomology/Entomology is the study of insects including beetles, flies, cicadas, moths, earwigs, fleas, bugs, cockroaches, bees, dragonflies and termites.
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Ichthyology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ichthyology/Learn about the Australian Museum Ichthyology collection and research of fishes.
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Malacology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/malacology/Learn about our collection and study of molluscs; including chitons, clams, mussels, snails, nudibranchs (sea slugs), tusk shells, octopus and squid.
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Mammalogy
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/mammalogy/Learn about our collection and study of mammals. Mammals include placental mammals such as rodents, primates and whales; marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas; and monotremes such as the platypus and echidna.
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Mineralogy
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/mineralogy/Learn more about our mineralogy and petrology collections and study of minerals and rocks.
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Ornithology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/Ornithology is the branch of zoology devoted to studying birds. Around 10,000 species of bird inhabit the world, ranging from tiny hummingbirds up to huge ostriches. The Australian Museum's Ornithology Collection contains a wide cross-section of these fascinating animals.
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Palaeontology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/palaeontology/Palaeontology is the study of fossils. Fossils are the remains or traces of prehistoric living things and are preserved in substances such as sediments, coal, tar, oil, amber or volcanic ash, or frozen in ice or naturally mummified.
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Minerals
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