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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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'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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Deep Oceans - Meet Mr Anglerfish
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/deep-oceans-meet-mr-anglerfish/Progress on the Deep Oceans exhibition is swimming along at a cracking pace...
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The Power of X-rays
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-power-of-x-rays/Colleagues at the Smithsonian have just added a fantastic new online exhibition to their website. Called 'What You See When You Turn a Fish Inside Out' gives users the chance to strip away the exterior of a fish and take an x-ray peek at its insides. Great stuff!
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Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-mimicking-ocotopus-mimicking-fish/The Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) has been known for some years for its ability to mimic flatfish, lionfish and seasnakes. A recent discovery in Indonesia adds a whole new twist to this story. The Black-marble Jawfish (Stalix cf. histrio) mimics the Mimic Octopus.
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BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-sailfish-feeding/This amazing underwater footage shows an aggregation of Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, feeding on a school of baitfish.
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Sixgill Shark attacks bait
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sixgill-shark-attacks-bait/A Sixgill Shark has been caught on video attacking a bait near Osprey Reef, off north-eastern Australia.
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Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fantastic-fish-links-from-pelagos/Ichthyologist, Adrian Flynn coordinates the Pelagos Email Group. His emails contain a variety of really interesting ocean realted news. He has kindly allowed me to repost this content. Some of the material presented is incredible! Thank very much you Adrian.
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Barramundi mystery solved
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/barramundi-mystery-solved/The case of the mysterious appearance of Barramundi in Sydney Harbour has been solved.
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Fish Collection tour
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-collection-tour/Join Fish Collection Manager Mark McGrouther on a quick tour through some of the Fish Collection at the Australian Museum.
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