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1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/piltdown-man-skull/1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
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What is a marsupial?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-marsupial/A marsupial is born in a very incomplete state.
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What is a parasite?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-parasite/A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism, the host, and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.
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What is a carnivore?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-carnivore/A carnivore is an animal that feeds on other animals.
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What is a monotreme?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-is-a-monotreme/Monotremes are different from other mammals because they lay eggs and have no teats.
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The Triassic Period (252 - 201 million years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-triassic-period-252-201-million-years-ago/The Triassic was a time of recovery and diversification after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian.
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What do mites and ticks look like?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-do-mites-and-ticks-look-like/Mite, line drawing. Mites and ticks belong to the Order Acarina.
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What do flies look like?
https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/what-do-flies-look-like/The true flies belong to the Order Diptera and include many common insects such as mosquitoes, midges, sand flies, blowflies and the House Fly.
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Homo heidelbergensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-heidelbergensis/These humans evolved in Africa but by 500,000 years ago some populations were in Europe. They lived and worked in co-operative groups, hunted large animals and made a variety of tools including stone hand axes and wooden spears set with stone spearheads.
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Homo erectus
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-erectus/Homo erectus is now one of the better known of our human relatives with over 40 specimens excavated from Java and China.
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