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Lizard Fish - The best part of every day
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lizard-fish-the-best-part-of-every-day/Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the daily highlights.
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Eagle rays in the shallows
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eagle-rays-in-the-shallows/This movie shows eagle rays (probably Southern Eagle Rays, Myliobatis australis) in very shallow water at Hopetoun, Western Australia.
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Pennantfish, Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/pennantfish-alectis-ciliaris-bloch-1787/Pennantfish, Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787)
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Fish chromatophores
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/fish-chromatophores/Chromatophores are pigment containing cells found in many animals. In fishes they occur in the scales and the dermal layer of the skin .
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Do fish smell?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/do-fish-smell/Well ok, what we really mean is 'Do fishes have a sense of smell?'
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Robert (Bob) McDowall 1939 – 2011
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/robert-bob-mcdowall-1939-2011/Well-known New Zealand fisheries scientist, Bob McDowall died after a short illness. Bob was regarded as the father of freshwater fish and fisheries in New Zealand, but also had a huge influence on unravelling the taxonomy and distribution of Australia's temperate freshwater fish.
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Fish Gonads
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/fish-gonads/The gonads are the organs that produce sex cells.
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Mystery skeleton
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/mystery-skeleton/A strange skeleton has caused a two-day sensation among some of the world's best ichthyologists! But finally we have an answer.
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A Tale of Climbing Galaxias
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/a-tale-of-climbing-galaxias/Over a three-day period in late January 1993, Ranger Ian McArtney observed thousands of Galaxias (probably Mountain Galaxias) climbing the wall of Winburndale Dam, near Bathurst, New South Wales.
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Which species of fish has the shortest lifespan?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/fish-shortest-lifespan/The Sign Eviota, Eviota sigillata, a tiny coral reef fish, completes its entire life cycle within an eight week period. This species has the shortest lifespan of any vertebrate.
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Tails from the Coasts
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Burra
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10am - 4.30pm -
RELICS
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Opens 16 August 2025 -
Minerals
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Open daily