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Congratulations to Dr Jeff Leis; Ichthyologist, senior fellow and now honorary member of ISJ!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/congratulations-to-dr-jeff-leis/Dr Jeff Leis, Senior Fellow at the Australian Museum, has recently become an Honorary Member of the Ichthyological Society of Japan (ISJ).
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Scraps of Coptic Culture
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/scraps-of-coptic-culture/Symbols and identity in complex Egyptian history.
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Frank Hurley's 'underwater' photography
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frank-hurley-underwater/In the 1920s there were no waterproof cameras. Instead, on his 1922 Torres Strait and Papua expedition, photographer Frank Hurley designed a mobile aquarium to create an illusion of colourful coral life.
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A virtual event to remember: The Whitley Awards 2020
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-virtual-event-to-remember-the-whitley-awards-2020/Every year, The Royal Zoological Society of NSW acknowledges the outstanding publications that significantly increase our knowledge of the fauna of the Australasian region with particular emphasis on its conservation. This year was no exception; however, the awards were held online.
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Meet the spectacular Red Wide-bodied Pipefish: Australia's newest endemic fish species
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/meet-the-spectacular-red-wide-bodied-pipefish-australias-newest-endemic-fish-species/Australian Museum scientists have identified a new pipefish species under the waves of our biggest city. Australia’s newest endemic fish species was found hiding in plain sight at a popular Sydney dive spot!
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The lives of creatures obscure, misunderstood, and wonderful: A volume in honour of Ken Aplin 1958–2019
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-lives-of-creatures-obscure-misunderstood-and-wonderful-a-volume-in-honour-of-ken-aplin-1958-2019/Kenneth Peter Aplin (1958–2019) was one of Australia’s leading vertebrate systematists, well known as an anatomist, mammalogist, herpetologist, palaeontologist, and archaeologist – he was an altogether unique and admired man.
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This month in Archaeology: Aboriginal heritage as ecological proxy in south-eastern Australia: a Barapa wetland village
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-aboriginal-heritage-as-ecological-proxy-in-south-eastern-australia/Dr Amy Way discusses a recently published paper by Pardoe and Hutton in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, examining how Aboriginal people traditionally lived in large groups around ecological ‘hotspots.’
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Does the Blue Mountains Tree Frog have really bad neighbours?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bad-frog-neighbours/Neighbourly feuds are a universal problem – but for the Blue Mountains Tree Frog, could the other frog species they share a stream with, be deadly?
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Surrender Your Shell: Using DNA to protect the Hawksbill Turtle
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/surrender-your-shell-using-dna-to-protect-the-hawksbill-turtle/Did you know that real tortoiseshell products are made from the shell of critically endangered Hawksbill turtles? This illegal trade has brought the species to the brink of extinction. To learn more, the Australian Museum, WWF-Australia and Royal Caribbean International launch Surrender Your Shell.
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Myth or museum specimen? The animals that are more fact than fiction
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/myth-or-museum-specimen-the-animals-that-are-more-fact-than-fiction/Famously featured in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones franchise, the dire wolf is far more than a popular legend. A recent study in Nature has discovered how genetically distinct this prehistoric carnivore actually was. Read more about the study, and other animals thought to be pure myth.
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