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Larval whalefish at Apo Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/larval-whalefish-at-apo-island/It is exceedingly rare to see a juvenile whalefish (a tapetail) in shallow water.
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The Power of X-rays
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-power-of-x-rays/Colleagues at the Smithsonian have just added a fantastic new online exhibition to their website. Called 'What You See When You Turn a Fish Inside Out' gives users the chance to strip away the exterior of a fish and take an x-ray peek at its insides. Great stuff!
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Lizard Fish - The best part of every day
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lizard-fish-the-best-part-of-every-day/Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the daily highlights.
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Eagle rays in the shallows
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eagle-rays-in-the-shallows/This movie shows eagle rays (probably Southern Eagle Rays, Myliobatis australis) in very shallow water at Hopetoun, Western Australia.
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Grow a backbone!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/grow-a-backbone/Can you imagine living without the vertebrae in your neck? Surely no animal on earth has a backbone that doesn't connect with its skull. Think again ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eel biodiversity region discovered
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eel-biodiversity-region-discovered/Analysis of specimens collected in the North West Coral Sea has shown that the area has many marine eel species and some are new to science.
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Deep-sea mystery solved as three become one
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/deep-sea-mystery/So dramatic is the metamorphosis of whalefishes that until now scientists thought the larva, adult male and adult female specimens in collections were from three separate families of fishes.
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