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What has long pointy teeth and a slingshot mouth?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/what-has-long-pointy-teeth-and-a-slingshot-mouth/A Goblin Shark, that's what; and the Australian Museum is delighted to have received a fine specimen in the last few days.
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Peeling away the prejudices: Shark scanning and taxidermy – first in Australia
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/shark-scanning-and-taxidermy-first-in-australia/What to do with such a large fish? The commencement of a 12 month project to preserve, mount and scan a Shortfin Mako.
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Who am I? The larval sunfish mystery
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/who-am-i-the-larval-sunfish-mystery/Isn’t this the cutest fish you have ever seen? At only 2 mm in length, this larval sunfish is one of three species of Mola found in Australian waters. The question is: which one is it?
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Angels in disguise
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/angels-in-disguise/Why do some fishes hybridize, while others don’t? A recent collaborative study with the University of Sydney, Australian Museum and University of Queensland, has asked this question of marine angelfishes. They found that hybridisation of these fishes is more widespread than previously thought.
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Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), the grandfather of ichthyology who dissected his own son
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/guillaume-rondelet/The story of the author of the oldest book in the Australian Museum Research Library.
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Environmental DNA improves the monitoring of coastal wetlands of international importance in South America
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/environmental-dna-improves-the-monitoring-of-coastal-wetlands-of-international-importance-in-south-america-/Joey Di Battista travelled to Chile to help colleagues determine traces of vertebrate eDNA for ongoing monitoring of invasive species.
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Fish dry, birds fly
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-dry-birds-fly/A joint Ichthyology and Ornithology excursion to Coolah Tops helps fill in gaps in both collections.
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Nemo won’t find home in an acidified ocean
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/nemo-wont-find-home-in-an-acidified-ocean/As oceans become more acid, senses larval fishes need to navigate will become dysfunctional.
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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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