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Herbivorous heavyweights
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-dinosaur-giants-club/One group of plant-eaters grew to become the biggest land animals ever. These were the sauropods - impressive long-necked, four-legged giants.
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Peter Rankin - a biographical sketch
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/peter-rankin-a-biographical-sketch/Peter Rankin, a young Australian herpetologist of great promise, was killed in New Caledonia on 2 January 1979 while collecting reptiles.
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What's happening to Australia's biodiversity?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/biodiversity/whats-happening-to-australias-biodiversity/Some scientists believe that we are now witnessing the sixth mass extinction, the only mass extinction caused by a single species - humans.
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Threatened and endangered land snails
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/molluscs/threatened-and-endangered-land-snails/In New South Wales, Australia, ten invertebrate animals have been listed as endangered, three insects and seven landsnails.
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Birds in Backyards: top 30 urban birds
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/birds-in-backyards-top-30-urban-birds/The Birds in Backyards website lists 30 species of bird that are sometimes found in towns and cities.
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Lace corals and sea mats - Bryozoa
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/jellyfish/lace-corals-and-sea-mats-bryozoa/Bryozoans are minute colonial animals, with individual members of the colony called zooids.
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Dragonflies and damselflies - Order Odonata
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/dragonflies-and-damselflies-order-odonata/Dragonflies and damselflies are large, conspicuous insects generally found near freshwater habitats. They are an ancient and successful group that was around long before the dinosaurs evolved.
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Bugs: Order Hemiptera
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/bugs-order-hemiptera/Not all insects are bugs. A bug is a member of the group Hemiptera, of which there are many different forms including aphids, hoppers, scale insects, cicadas and, confusingly, the 'true' bugs.
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Jenolan Caves Minerals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/mineralogy-collection-jenolan-caves-minerals/The Jenolan Caves are one of the premier tourist attractions of New South Wales. Nine caves are regularly shown to visitors, but several hundred of various sizes are known from the area.
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Night Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/ornithology-collection-night-parrot/The Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, is a rather undistinguished looking bird: plump, medium-sized and mottled with yellowish green and dark brown.
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2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
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Wansolmoana
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Burra
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