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Deepsea Glass Sponge
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/sea-stars/sponges/invertebrates-collection-deepsea-glass-sponge/The skeleton of this deepsea dwelling glass sponge, Euplectella, is a lattice of silica forming a chamber that houses a mated pair of shrimp.
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Big Hairy Freshwater Slaters go for a Walk
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/crustaceans/invertebrates-collection-big-hairy-freshwater-slaters-go-for-a-walk/The Australian Museum marine invertebrates collection contains two lots of freshwater slaters known as Peludo paraliotus (Isopoda: Phreatoicidea), a new species and genus collected in pretty unusual circumstances.
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Mud Crabs at Sea
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/crustaceans/invertebrates-collection-mud-crabs-at-sea/The mud crab Scylla serrata is a large crab that occurs widely throughout the Indo-West Pacific Ocean and Australia.
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Spiders in history
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/spiders-in-history/What do Mohammed, Yoritomo, David and Robert the Bruce have in common?
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Rare - or just hidden?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/entomology-collection-rare-or-just-hidden/Many entomologists argue that there is no such thing as a rare insect (providing its habitat remains intact). It is just a matter of knowing how to find it.
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Wombat Flies
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/entomology-collection-wombat-flies/Wombat flies are tiny native Australian flies belonging to the tribe (a taxonomic classification between genus and family) Borboroidini.
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Spider bites and venoms
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/spider-bites-and-venoms/Spider venoms are a cocktail of many chemicals.
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Stone Centipedes - Living Fossils
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/arachnology-collection-stone-centipedes-living-fossils/The little yellow or red-brown creatures known to science as Lithobiomorpha may not look like much, but they are living records of Australia's ancient natural history.
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Mysterious Marine Spiders in Sydney Harbour
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/arachnology-collection-mysterious-marine-spiders-in-sydney-harbour/Spiders are pretty adaptable creatures so it's not too surprising that some have colonised the intertidal zone around Australia's coast.
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Classifying spiders
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/classifying-spiders/By studying and classifying spiders, scientists learn about their diversity, biology, distribution and evolutionary relationships.
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