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The tale of four sunfish
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-tale-of-four-sunfish/Over an extraordinary four week period in late 1882, four rare giant sunfish were captured in Sydney waters.
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AMplify: Episode 12, Mark McGrouther
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amplify-episode-12-mark-mcgrouther/To the Collection Manager of the fourth largest type collection of fishes in the world, Sydney Harbour is a marine jewel.
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A little tiger on the prowl
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-little-tiger-on-the-prowl/The newly described Tiger Sandgoby, Nesogobius tigrinus might be small but it is out on the prowl for a mate.
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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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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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Mating Coffin Rays
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/mating-numbfish/Roger Lee from the Diving Organisation of University of Technology Sydney (DOUTS) captured this terrific footage of Coffin Rays mating.
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Sawfish saw in action
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sawfish-saw-in-action/This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.
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Larval whalefish at Apo Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/larval-whalefish-at-apo-island/It is exceedingly rare to see a juvenile whalefish (a tapetail) in shallow water.
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'Water squirting' Common Lionfish
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/water-squirting-common-lionfish/This video is quite amazing; It shows an unusual feeding strategy employed by Common Lionfish.
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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
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