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Lizard Fish - The best part of every day
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lizard-fish-the-best-part-of-every-day/Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the daily highlights.
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Eagle rays in the shallows
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eagle-rays-in-the-shallows/This movie shows eagle rays (probably Southern Eagle Rays, Myliobatis australis) in very shallow water at Hopetoun, Western Australia.
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BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-flyingfish-footage/If you are a fish, one of the most effective ways to avoid a predator must be to leave the water. Fishes have evolved different strategies to do just that, but few manage to do so as spectacularly as the flyingfishes. It is not uncommon to see a fish glide up to 200 m.
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BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-sailfish-feeding/This amazing underwater footage shows an aggregation of Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, feeding on a school of baitfish.
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Gilbert Percy Whitley
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/gilbert-percy-whitley/A life time's work: 500 papers, 5 books, 37,000 fish specimens collected and 320 new species identified.
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Larval fish life
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/larval-fish-life/In his recent paper, Jeff Leis provides more information about the life of larval fishes.
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Hyperostosis - Swollen Bones
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/hyperostosis-swollen-bones/The enlargement of particular areas of fish bones is known as hyperostosis.
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World's first Black Marlin caught on Rod and Reel
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/worlds-first-black-marlin-caught-on-rod-and-reel/A skeleton hanging in the Museum's Wild Planet gallery is from the first Black Marlin ever caught on rod and reel.
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Fish FAQ - Can fishes change colour?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/can-fishes-change-colour/What causes the colouration of a fish and can it change? Read on ...
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How do Electric Rays produce electricity?
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/how-do-electric-rays-produce-electricity/The electric currents produced by some species of fishes, such as the Numbfish and torpedo rays are generated in cells called electrocytes. When an electrocyte is stimulated, a movement of ions (electrically charged atoms) across the cell membrane results in an electric discharge.
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