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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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Tanks Everybody!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/tanks-everybody/Have you ever wondered how large fish specimens are stored here in the Australian Museum collections?
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A Diploma for ‘Stuffed Fish’, 1883
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-diploma-for-stuffed-fish-1883/Why is the recently discovered 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition diploma, designed by Linley Sambourne, unique?
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Say hello to the Eastern Tadpole Coffinfish
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-say-hello-to-the-eastern-tadpole-coffinfish/A pudgy little coffinfish that lives over a kilometre below the surface has just been named.
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Fish full of fishes
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-full-of-fishes/The 'fish folk' recently teamed up with James King from Photography to take x-rays of two predatory fish. What we saw surprised us!
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Marine vandal has a gutful!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/marine-vandal-has-a-gutful/Emails from a research vessel in the middle of the Pacific tell of a small shark whose 'taste' for fresh sashimi led to its capture.
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Large Muraenid Leptocephali
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/large-muraenid-leptocephali/The stunning video below, shows large leptocephali filmed by divers at three locations within the Indonesian Archipelago from 2009 to 2011.
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