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Spider facts
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/spider-facts/Find answers to commonly asked questions and discover interesting facts about spiders in Australia, New Zealand and dangerous spiders around the world.
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Funnel-web Spiders
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/funnel-web-spiders-group/Funnel-web spiders, the most notorious members of our spider fauna, are found in eastern Australia.
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Sydney Funnel-web Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/sydney-funnel-web-spider/Probably the most notorious of all spiders, Sydney Funnel-webs have a fearsome reputation. Most of this is deserved, but some is exaggerated.
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Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/sydney-brown-trapdoor-spider/Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider, Arbanitis villosus
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Redback Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/redback-spider/Redback spiders belong to the Family Theridiidae, which is found worldwide. The notorious Black Widow Spider (Latrodectus sp) of the United States is a close relative of the Redback Spider, and only differs in appearance by the absence of a red dorsal stripe.
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Platypus
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/platypus/The Platypus is a unique Australian species. Along with echidnas, Platypuses are grouped in a separate order of mammals known as monotremes, which are distinguished from all other mammals because they lay eggs.
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Dingo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/dingo/The Dingo is Australia's wild dog. It is an ancient breed of domestic dog that was introduced to Australia, probably by Asian seafarers, about 4,000 years ago. Its origins have been traced back to early breeds of domestic dogs in south east Asia.
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Bare-nosed Wombat
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/bare-nosed-wombat/Wombats are amongst the world’s largest burrowing animals. They are equipped with powerful limbs, short broad feet and flattened claws. Wombats are primarily grazers and their continuously growing incisors work as efficient cutters of grass and forbs.
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Cane Toad
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/frogs/cane-toad/The Cane Toad is tough and adaptable, as well as being poisonous throughout its life cycle, and has few predators in Australia.
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Common Lionfish
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/common-lionfish-pterois-volitans/Common Lionfish, Pterois volitans
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