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Worms
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/worms/The Australian Museum houses an important collection of earthworms, bristle worms and leeches, including an extensive bristle worm collection from Australia and Indo-Pacific. Learn about these resilient creatures that have virtually conquered every habitat on the planet!
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Crustaceans
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/crustaceans/Find out more about crustaceans - crabs, lobsters, prawns, barnacles - and what makes them such interesting creatures. The Australian Museum has a long tradition of studying crustaceans and this is reflected in the extensive Marine Invertebrates collection.
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Stony Coral
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/jellyfish/stony-coral/Few stony corals grow around Sydney but of these, 'Plesiastrea versipora' is most often noticed by divers.
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A jellyfish out of the box
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-jellyfish-out-of-the-box/An unexpected encounter with a box jellyfish in Lake Macquarie.
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Cosmopolitan species: do they exist?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/cosmopolitan-species-do-they-exist/Cosmopolitan species are reported to occur globally in most habitats from the intertidal to abyssal depths, but can the records be trusted?
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Eat your greens for evolutionary success
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eat-your-greens-for-evolutionary-success/New evidence suggests that a vegetarian diet promotes evolutionary diversity in crustaceans.
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What is a Polychaete?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/what-is-a-polychaete/There's more than meets the eye to these worm-like creatures.
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Stars of the Sydney sea shine
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/stars-of-the-sydney-sea/Seastars are beautiful and important animals. The Australian Museum collection is being used to help identify those of the Sydney region.
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Rock-a-bye baby – All at sea on the RV Braveheart
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/rock-a-bye-babyall-at-sea-on-the-rv-braveheart/During September four staff set out on the RV Braveheart from New Zealand for the Austral and Gambier Islands of southern French Polynesia.
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Soft Coral
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/jellyfish/soft-coral/Close relatives of the sea pens, soft corals live in colonies attached to the seabed and can be flat, covering rock surfaces, or branched.
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