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Octopus, squid and cuttlefish - Class Cephalopoda
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/molluscs/octopus-squid-and-cuttlefish-class-cephalopoda/Cephalopod literally means 'head foot' and members of this group, including octopuses, cuttlefishes, squids and nautiluses, have their foot or tentacles connected to their head, not their body.
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Lace corals and sea mats - Bryozoa
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/jellyfish/lace-corals-and-sea-mats-bryozoa/Bryozoans are minute colonial animals, with individual members of the colony called zooids.
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Dragonflies and damselflies - Order Odonata
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/dragonflies-and-damselflies-order-odonata/Dragonflies and damselflies are large, conspicuous insects generally found near freshwater habitats. They are an ancient and successful group that was around long before the dinosaurs evolved.
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Bugs: Order Hemiptera
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/bugs-order-hemiptera/Not all insects are bugs. A bug is a member of the group Hemiptera, of which there are many different forms including aphids, hoppers, scale insects, cicadas and, confusingly, the 'true' bugs.
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Jenolan Caves Minerals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/mineralogy-collection-jenolan-caves-minerals/The Jenolan Caves are one of the premier tourist attractions of New South Wales. Nine caves are regularly shown to visitors, but several hundred of various sizes are known from the area.
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Night Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/ornithology-collection-night-parrot/The Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, is a rather undistinguished looking bird: plump, medium-sized and mottled with yellowish green and dark brown.
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Eyrean Grasswren
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/ornithology-collection-eyrean-grasswren/The Eyrean Grasswren, Amytornis goyderi, was until the late 1970s known only from specimens collected in 1874 at Macumba River, north-west of Lake Eyre, South Australia.
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Whale Graveyard
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/mammology-collection-whale-graveyard/Many whales are stranded along the New South Wales coast each year, some of which die on the beach. Some carcasses are washed out to sea again, a few are brought straight to the Museum.
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The fish collection of Francis Day
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/ichthyology-collection-the-fish-collection-of-francis-day/In 1883, one of the most impressive fish collections to be acquired by the Australian Museum was bought from Dr Francis Day for 200 pounds.
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French Polynesian Flatfish Puzzle
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/ichthyology-collection-french-polynesian-flatfish-puzzle/In common with many marine animals, bony fishes that live on coral reefs have a two-part life history.
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