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Australian Museum: Death: The Last Taboo
Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. Explores what happens to us when we die and the different ways we deal with death.
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Australian Museum: Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Explore extensive information about a variety of Australian dinosaurs, as well as Chinese ones. The evolution of birds from dinosaurs is also described. This online exhibit offers images and facts about dinosaurs, their relatives and...
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Australian Museum: Bug Wise: Ants
Museum site invites users to learn more about this tiny creature by providing them with information on what ants look like, where they are normally found and much more.
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Australian Museum: Bug Wise
Explore the diverse world of invertebrates. Learn what they are, what they do, and how they contribute to our planet. This site offers "BugWise News", a forum, an invertebrate guide, and a wide range of great resources and activities.
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Australian Museum: Bug Wise: Cicada
Museum site features the Cicada. Provides a comprehensive physical description as well as information as to where they are found and what they do.
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Australian Museum: Animal Species: Red Indian Fish, Pataecus Fronto
A description of the Red Indian Fish, which lives only off the coasts of Australia. Description includes identification, habitat, feeding and diet, as well as other characteristics or qualities of the species.
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Australian Museum: Animals
This online site for the Australian Museum introduces the nature and culture of this unique continent. This particular section focuses on the creatures of Australia including spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, frogs,...
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Australian Museum: Radioactive Dating
This article explains what radioactive dating is and describes the different techniques used, what they are used for, and the limitations of each.
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Australian Museum: Aborinigal and Torres Strait Islander
The Australian Museum Online presents the anthropology of the Indigenous people of Australia. See their collection of artifacts and read about western desert art and other historical ideas about Australia.
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Australian Museum: Birds of Sydney Harbour
This beautiful site from the Australian Museum touches upon the bird fauna of Sydney Harbour. You can learn about the changing habitats, how to identify birds and where to see them. There is also a list of the different birds that can be...
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Australian Museum: Fishes: Coelacanth
An article on modern-day discoveries about the prehistoric coelacanth fish. Read about the geographic distribution, classification, fossil record, and economic and social impacts of the animal.
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Australian Museum: Dinosaurs on the Attack
Scientists have theropods overcame their prey using their claws and teeth are described.
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Australian Museum: Student Stuff: Dissection of a Blue Mackerel
This resource provides 17 slides of a fish dissection. Each slide also contains a description and some provide further information on internal organs.
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Australian Museum: Student Stuff: Dissection of a Blue Spotted Flathead
This resource provides a step-by-step slide show of fish dissection. A description is provided with each slide.
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Australian Museum: Caves
Discover the different decorations of caves. Learn how they are made and how they add to the beauty of these underground chamber.
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Australian Museum: Mammals
Australian Museum Online has a collection of mammals including bats, platypus, and marsupials. Take a peek. Read about the monkey-faced bat, the mountain brushtail possum, and the tree kangaroo.
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Australian Museum: Minerals
Australian Museum Online has a collection of rocks and minerals. Read about a rock from Cape Horn, the Jenolan Cave minerals and the "Barratta Meteorite."
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Australian Museum: Plate Tectonic Processes
A comprehensive site on plate tectonics and the Earth. Read how the oceanic and continental crusts, as well as the heat and the pressure within the Earth affect plate tectonics.
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Australian Museum: Bats in Australia
Curious about some of the 90 species of bats that live in Australia? Click on a region of Australia and then on the bat you would like to learn more about. Learn about their habitat, what they eat, and what threatens their survival.
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Australian Museum: Arachnology Collection
Australian Museum Online has a collection of arachnids. You can even examine their "feature arachnid!"
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Australian Museum: Entomology
Australian Museum has a massive collection of insects. Read about their "feature insect," along with a stalk-eyed signal fly, a wombat fly, and a phantom phasmid.
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Australian Museum: Malacology
See the Australian Museum Online collection of mollusca. Read about how the sea slug defends itself and the history of the bivalve pulvinitidae.
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Australian Museum: Beetles
This thorough site provides a general overview of beetles and focuses on topics such as habitat, anatomy, life cycle, feeding, predation and defense, and beetles as pests.
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Australian Museum: Beyond the Reef: Plankton
The Australian Museum explores the many different types of plankton in the Great Barrier Reef and the surrounding Bluewater Zone. Learn information on phytoplankton, zooplankton, holoplankton, and meroplankton.