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Sharks bodies and senses
https://australian.museum/publications/sharks/bodies-senses/Over millions of years, sharks have developed streamlined bodies and extraordinary senses to help navigate and detect prey while also providing protection against attack.
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Respect and fear
https://australian.museum/publications/sharks/respect-fear/Sharks have often been portrayed as killing machines and monsters to be feared. However, for First Nations peoples of the sea in Australia and the Pacific sharks have always been respected and deemed as ancestors and gods.
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Hawaii
https://australian.museum/publications/sharks/hawaii/Hawaii is an archipelago of 137 volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean and the first peoples of the Hawaiian islands are the Kānaka Maoli.
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Why oceans need sharks
https://australian.museum/publications/sharks/why-oceans-need-sharks/Apex predators such as big sharks play a crucial role in keeping the ocean’s delicate ecosystem in balance. Intense overfishing has not only had devastating effects on shark numbers but also placed huge stress on the entire marine food chain.
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Sharks: many places, many stories
https://australian.museum/publications/sharks/places-stories/For 450 million years they’ve dominated our oceans but today sharks are now under threat. Hear from First Nations peoples, scientists and conservationist as they share their stories about these ancient survivors.
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The Birds of Australia
https://australian.museum/publications/birds-storybox/Learn about The Birds of Australia touring exhibition, inspired by the work of John and Elizabeth Gould.
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Arachnology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/arachnology/Arachnology is the study of the group of animals called arachnids. Arachnids include spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks and mites.
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Herpetology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/herpetology/Herpetology is the study of amphibians, including frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians, and reptiles, including lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles.
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Marine Invertebrates
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/marine-invertebrates/The Marine Invertebrates Collection is active in research on a variety of taxa, such as annelids, cnidarians and crustaceans, and holds extensive collections of most marine phyla.
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Boomerangs
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/first-nations-collections/boomerangs/Discover the diversity of boomerangs in the Museum's collection, and learn about these distinctive cultural objects.
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