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Newcastle Funnel-web Spider, Atrax christenseni
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/newcastle-funnel-web-spider-atrax-christenseni/Newcastle Funnel-webs are shiny, dark brown to black spiders with finger-like spinnerets (silk-spinning organs) at the end of their abdomen.
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Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/hominid-and-hominin-whats-the-difference/Current use of the term ‘hominid’ can be confusing because the definition of this word has changed over time.
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Grindstones
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cultural-objects/grindstones/Fragments of grinding stones dating back 30,000 years to late in the Pleistocene Epoch have been found at Cuddie Springs in western NSW.
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Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus nalu Short et al, 2020
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/pygmy-seahorse-hippocampus-nalu-short-et-al-2020/Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus nalu Short et al, 2020
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Chrysocolla replacing Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chrysocolla-replacing-azurite/These flower-like replacements (or pseudomorphs) of azurite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) by chrysocolla (copper silicate with water) were a unique feature of the Dorothy Mine, and are much prized by collectors.
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Anglesite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/Anglesite-on-cerussite/This reticulated cerussite (lead carbonate) has a sugar-like coating of anglesite (lead sulphate).
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Wooden shield from Cape York, c1893
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/australian-archaeology/wooden-shield-from-cape-york-c1893/This wooden shield made by the Kuku Yalanji people of the Daintree Rainforest on Cape York in north-eastern Queensland.
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Pyromorphite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/pyromorphite/Pyromorphite (lead chloro-phosphate) was a common mineral of the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody, and exceptional specimens of various crystal forms and colours were found.
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Bigeye Barracuda, Sphyraena forsteri (Cuvier, 1829)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/bigeye-barracuda-sphyraena-forsteri-cuvier-1829/Bigeye Barracuda, Sphyraena forsteri (Cuvier, 1829)
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Masked Threefin, Enneapterygius similis
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/masked-threefin-enneapterygius-similis/Masked Threefin, Enneapterygius similis
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