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Education
What's in the Box - Bermagui Bioblitz
Everything came together today for the Bermagui Bioblitz, 5 school joined forces to survey 3 coastal ecosystems.
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Education
What's in the Box - Tathra Public school
The second stop on my south coast journey was Tathra Public school where I visited with year 5 and 6 students.
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Museullaneous
New acquisition in Archives -- Fishing Notes, c1900-1931
A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.
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Science
Mating Coffin Rays
Roger Lee from the Diving Organisation of University of Technology Sydney (DOUTS) captured this terrific footage of Coffin Rays mating.
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At the Museum
Deep Oceans - Another arrival comes to town
Yet another piece of the deep oceans puzzle is coming together at the Australian Museum.
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Science
Frogs in nests?
Most of the time, frogs deposit their eggs in a pond or stream and leave their offspring to fend for themselves. Limborg's Frogs, however...
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At the Museum
Deep Oceans - Dive in June 2012
Our newest exhibition, Deep Oceans, will be ready for the world to enjoy this June.
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Science
DigiVol: Thoughts from Vanessa Finney
An interview with Vanessa Finney, Manager Archives and Records who talks about her experiences working with the Digitisation Project.
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At the Museum
Point and Shoot #6 - Photoshop and other image editing software
From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King
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At the Museum
Point and Shoot #5 - What lens or focal length should I use
From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King
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At the Museum
Deep Oceans - A word from prep…
For our Deep Oceans exhibition, Angus Adameitis and our prep team are building a full scale replica of Otis Barton and William Bebee's Bathysphere.
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At the Museum
Deep Oceans – Viewed from the 'Globe'
While building the Deep Oceans exhibition, we’ve had to come up with ways of effectively demonstrating the vastness, as well as the conditions of the Deep Oceans.
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Science
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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Science
Larval basslet movies
Fishes of the genus Liopropoma have have extremely long ornate second and third dorsal fin spines during their pelagic larval phase. This ornamentation is lost when the larvae metamophose during the transition between open water habitat and the reefs where Liopropoma species liv
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Science
Corals of Kosrae - The Island of the Sleeping Lady
Dr Zoe Richards has just returned from an expedition to Kosrae, Micronesia, where she was surveying coral biodiversity. In this post, she describes her scuba diving surveys beneath the Island of the Sleeping Lady.
