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Gilbert Percy Whitley
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/gilbert-percy-whitley/A life time's work: 500 papers, 5 books, 37,000 fish specimens collected and 320 new species identified.
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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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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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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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