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Dinosaurs on the attack
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-on-the-attack/The ability to overpower another animal requires a combination of strength, speed, balance and weaponry. Most theropods relied on such skills and assets to find food, although some appeared to have adapted to life as filter-feeders or plant-eaters.
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Defence and signalling
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/life-among-the-plants/It sounds like a fancy dress party gone wrong: horns, dome-heads, crests, frills, noise, head-butting and rivalry. But they are really about using your head and some plant-eating dinosaurs excelled at it.
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Dinosaur senses
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaur-senses/Both plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs needed their senses to find food. How do you search for tasty plants to eat while remaining aware of any stalking predators? How do you find your plant-eating prey when they may be camouflaged or in hiding?
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Carnivore teeth and diet
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/meat-eating-dinosaurs/These are the sharp-toothed, ferocious meat-eating dinosaurs of popular imagination - the ultimate predators built purely to kill. Or are they? Collectively known as theropods, they range from bus-sized to chicken-sized.
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Radioactive dating
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/radioactive-dating/Radioactive dating is a method of dating rocks and minerals using radioactive isotopes. This method is useful for igneous and metamorphic rocks, which cannot be dated by the stratigraphic correlation method used for sedimentary rocks.
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Spinal Deformities
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/spinal-deformities/Spinal deformities are sometimes seen in fishes.
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What is biodiversity?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/biodiversity/what-is-biodiversity/Biodiversity is the variety of life. Three levels of diversity work together to create the complexity of life on Earth.
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Human Evolution - Tools
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/human-evolution-tools/Sticks and stones picked up unaltered from the ground were probably the only implements used by the great apes and earliest human ancestors.
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Human Evolution - Hominid Skulls
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/human-evolution-skulls/Examining the skulls of living apes and our extinct ancestors allows us to explore characteristics which reflect the evolutionary relationships in our family tree.
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About Human Evolution
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/about-human-evolution/Human evolution is the biological and cultural development and change of our hominin ancestors to modern humans.
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