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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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Sydney Harbour - 3000 species and counting!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sydney-harbour-species/Quick quiz ... how many species of animals live in Sydney Harbour? Do you know where those animals live?
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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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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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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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Something fishy is going on!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/something-fishy/Australasian Fishes is the AM's latest foray into community driven citizen science and has already had an unprecedented impact.
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