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Sawfish saw in action
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sawfish-saw-in-action/This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.
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Lizard Fish - Shark Beaching
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lizard-fish-shark-beaching/Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about an encounter at the beach.
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Lizard Fish - In the beginning
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lizard-fish/Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the research they are conducting.
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Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-mimicking-ocotopus-mimicking-fish/The Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) has been known for some years for its ability to mimic flatfish, lionfish and seasnakes. A recent discovery in Indonesia adds a whole new twist to this story. The Black-marble Jawfish (Stalix cf. histrio) mimics the Mimic Octopus.
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Three Fish New to Science Discovered in Volcanic Islands
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/three-fish-new-to-science-discovered-in-volcanic-islands/Three fish new to science are among those discovered by an Australian and New Zealand research team which returned today from a successful expedition to the volcanic Kermadec Islands, 1000 km northeast of New Zealand.
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What is a gas bladder?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-gas-bladder/If you have found a strange balloon-like object washed up on the beach, you may be looking at a fish's gas bladder.
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Gilbert Percy Whitley
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/gilbert-percy-whitley/A life time's work: 500 papers, 5 books, 37,000 fish specimens collected and 320 new species identified.
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Larval fish life
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/larval-fish-life/In his recent paper, Jeff Leis provides more information about the life of larval fishes.
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Hyperostosis - Swollen Bones
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/hyperostosis-swollen-bones/The enlargement of particular areas of fish bones is known as hyperostosis.
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World's first Black Marlin caught on Rod and Reel
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/worlds-first-black-marlin-caught-on-rod-and-reel/A skeleton hanging in the Museum's Wild Planet gallery is from the first Black Marlin ever caught on rod and reel.
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