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What is a Muttaburrasaurus?
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/australian-dinosaurs/what-was-muttaburrasaurus/Winny the Museum's dinosaur is a life-sized puppet of a juvenile Muttaburrasaurus. But what exactly is a Muttaburrasaurus?
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Dinosaurs - Giganotosaurus carolinii
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/giganotosaurus-carolinii/Giganotosaurus carolinii. Based on fossil found in Argentina. Cretaceous, 112 - 89 million years ago.
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Dinosaurs - Sinornithosaurus millenii
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/sinornithosaurus-millenii/Sinornithosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs discovered with feathers. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, 130–125 million years ago. Its name is derived from the Greek, ‘chinese bird-lizard’, and is pronounced: SINE-or-nith-oh-SAWR-us.
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The first modern humans in Southeast Asia
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-first-modern-humans-in-southeast-asia/Archaeological evidence shows that modern humans had reached Southeast Asia by 70,000 years ago, however the oldest securely dated modern human remains are only about 40,000 years old.
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Homo floresiensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-floresiensis/One of the most controversial and surprising hominin finds in a century.
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Edwin Charles Prince
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/edwin-charles-prince/Gould also relied very heavily on his personal secretary Edwin Prince, who was responsible for managing the day-to-day affairs of Gould's business.
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Homo sapiens – modern humans
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-sapiens-modern-humans/All people living today belong to the species Homo sapiens. We evolved only relatively recently but with complex culture and technology have been able to spread throughout the world and occupy a range of different environments.
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Australopithecus garhi
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/australopithecus-garhi/This hominin lived 2.5 million years and, although similar to other australopithecines, it displayed some surprising features.
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Orrorin tugenensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/orrorin-tugenensis/A key specimen of the human story, its position on our family tree is highly debated. Is it the oldest known hominin or should it be placed on the tree before the human line split from the line leading to chimpanzees?
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The human family tree
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-human-family-tree/Our family tree extends back for five to seven million years to the time when our ancestors took their first two-legged steps on the path toward becoming human. During this vast period of time our family tree grew to include many ancestors representing different species from our evolutionary past
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