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Deaths in custody: What can museums do to effect change?
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/deaths-in-custody-what-can-museums-do/Museums have the power to set the agenda.
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2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists
https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/eureka-prizes-archive/2018-eureka-prizes-finalists/47 entries were shortlisted for 16 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in 2018.
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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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Stages of decomposition
https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposition/Decomposition of a corpse is a continual process that can take from weeks to years, depending on the environment. Warning: This webpage shows images of a dead pig decomposing.
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Systematics of Australian reptiles
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/herpetology/systematics-of-australian-reptiles/A snapshot of some of the reptile research going on at the Australian Museum.
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