Full Fact sheet List

Australian Museum fact sheets are produced by Australian Museum scientific staff from Research and Collections, Information Officers from search & discover and staff from Public Programs. All fact sheets are checked for scientific accuracy.

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Indigenous Australia About Australian Museum Environment and Habitats Biodiversity Conservation Amphibians

Reptiles Birds Mammals Fish Insects Spiders and their relatives

Marine invertebrates Other invertebrates Fossils Dinosaurs and other extinct animals Geology Australian Museum Science

Evolution Animal care Plants Collecting and specimens Kids' stuff Water

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Indigenous Australia

• The Krantji Kangaroo Clan of Central Australia
• Dreaming online - background information

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About Australian Museum

• Archives of the Australian Museum fact sheets

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Environment and Habitats

• Backyard and Beyond - Communities Conserving Biodiversity
• Biodiversity in Soil and Leaf Litter
• Bush Regeneration at Wollamai Point
• Conserving Biodiversity on Coral Reefs
• Ecological Sustainability
• Ecosystem Services
• Eucalypts
• Fire in the Australian Landscape
• Kelp
• Mountain Tops and Biodiversity
• Rainforest Conservation
• Sclerophyll Forests
• The Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea
• The Hotspots Project
• Tidal Wetlands
• Mound Springs in Arid Australia

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Biodiversity

• Backyard and Beyond - Communities Conserving Biodiversity
• Biodiversity in Soil and Leaf Litter
• Bitou Bush - Its Effects on Biodiversity
• Habitat Fragmentation, its Effect on Biodiversity
• The Effects of Tourism and Recreation on Biodiversity
• Politics and Biodiversity

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Conservation

• Conservation Reserves
• Conserving Biodiversity
• Conserving Biodiversity on Coral Reefs
• Ecological Sustainability
• Salinisation - One of Our Biggest Environmental Problems
• Rainforest Conservation

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Amphibians

• Cane Toads
• Tree frogs: Living Harbour
• Ground frogs: Living Harbour
• Frogs - Amphibia: Wildlife of Sydney

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Reptiles

• Australian Goannas
• Blue-tongued Lizards
• Fangs of deadly venomous snakes
• Ctenotus - Australian Lizards
• Golden-crowned Snake
• Lizards
• Mary River Turtle
• Reptiles as Pets
• Yellow-faced Whip Snake
• Turtles: Living Harbour
• Snakes: Living Harbour
• Lizards: Living Harbour
• Snakes, lizards and other reptiles - Reptilia: Wildlife of Sydney

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Birds

• Birds in Backyards – Bird finder – full bird fact sheet list
• Birds website – fact sheet list

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Mammals

• Andrews' Beaked Whale
• Arnoux's Beaked Whale
• Australian Fur Seal
• Australian Sea Lion
• Blainville's Beaked Whale
• Bottlenose Dolphin
• Common Dolphin
• Cuvier's Beaked Whale
• Dugong
• False Killer Whale
• Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
• Gray's Beaked Whale
• Hector's Beaked Whale
• Humpback Whale
• Killer Whale / Orca
• Leopard Seal
• Longman's Beaked Whale
• Minke Whale
• Pygmy Sperm Whale
• Shepherd's Beaked Whale
• Short-finned Pilot Whale
• Southern Bottlenose Whale
• Southern Right Whale
• Sperm Whale
• Strap-toothed Whale
• Striped Dolphin
• True's Beaked Whale

Australian Mammals

• Brown Antechinus
• Bush Rat
• Dingos
• Eastern Pygmy Possum
• Endemism in Australian Mammals
• Platypus
• Ring-tailed Possum
• Water Rat

Introduced Mammals

• Black Rat
• Brown Rat
• House Mouse
• Is it a Black Rat?

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Fish

• About fishes
• Fish FAQs
• Find a Fish by species
• Find a Fish by common name
• Find a Fish by type of fish
• Fishes from Australia's Temperate Marine Shore
• Marine Animals Living in Kelp Forests
• Sharks
• Fish scales: Fish Website
• Fish in focus: Fish Website

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Insects

• Why most animals are insects
• Ants
• Ants as pests
• Ant Colonies
• Australian Ants
• Australian Cicada Killer Wasp
• Australian mallee moths and their relatives
• Australian Painted Lady Butterfly
• Bees
• Beetles
• Bogong Moths
• Caper White Butterfly
• Cicadas
• Cockroaches
• Common Crow or Oleander Butterfly
• Cup moths
• Dragonflies and Damselflies
• Dung Beetles
• Earwigs
• European Wasps
• Fiddler Beetles
• Flower Wasps
• Flies, Mosquitoes
• Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids and Locusts
• Hawk Moths
• Hover Flies
• Lacewings and Antlions
• Lichen Moths
• Lycaenid Butterflies and Ants
• Moths, Butterflies and Skippers
• Observing Ants
• Paper Wasps
• Phasmids
• Pie-dish Beetles
• Sawflies
• Sawflies, Wasps, Bees, Ants
• Spider Wasps
• Termites
• Termites as pests
• True Bugs
• Wanderer or Monarch Butterfly
• White-stemmed Gum Moths
• What's in your backyard?
• What are the differences between ants and termites?
• What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
• What are the differences between butterflies and moths?
• What are the differences between flies and wasps?

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Spiders and their relatives

• Australian tarantulas
• Bird-dropping Spiders
• Black House Spiders
• Black Rugose Trapdoor Spider
• Bolas Spiders - Magnificent Spider
• Carrai Cave Spider
• Comb-footed Platform Spider
• Cupboard or Brown House Spider
• Flower or Crab Spiders
• Foliage Webbing Spider
• Fringed Jumping Spider or Portia
• Funnel-web Spiders
• Ground spiders
• Huntsman Spiders
• Jumping spiders
• Leaf-curling spiders
• Mangrove Golden Orb-weaving Spider
• Mouse Spiders
• Net-casting Spiders (Deinopis subrufa and Avella sp)
• Orb-weaving Spiders
• Redback Spiders
• Red-spotted Argyrodes
• Rufous Net-casting Spider
• Sac Spiders
• Saint Andrew's Cross Spider
• Scorpions
• Slater-eating Spiders
• Spiders in the House and Garden
• Spiders that mimic ants
• Spotted Ground Spider
• Tasmanian Cave Spider
• Trapdoor Spiders
• Tube Spiders
• Wolf Spiders
• Whip Spider
• White-tailed Spider
• What's in your backyard?

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Marine invertebrates

• The Bluebottle or Portuguese Man-of-war
• Sea Slug Forum: species list
• Sea Slug Forum: general topics
• Wildlife of Sydney: searchable database of Sydney invertebrates

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Other invertebrates

• Earthworms
• Arthropods - A Biological History
• Crayfish
• Gordian Worms
• Introduced Snails in Australia
• Leeches
• Mantis Shrimp - Colourful and Aggressive
• Isopods- Phreatoiceidea
• Potworms
• Recognising Australian Earthworms
• Shovel-headed Garden Worm
• Velvet worms
• What's in your backyard?
• Wildlife of Sydney: searchable database of Sydney invertebrates

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Fossils

• Common fossils of the Sydney Basin
• Fossil sites near Sydney
• Collecting fossils in New South Wales
• Palaeontology fact sheets: Palaeontology Website

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Dinosaurs and other extinct animals

• Dinosaurs
• Megafauna extinction - people theory
• Megafauna extinction - patterns of extinction
• Snapshots through time: Australia's Lost Kingdoms
• Fascinating animal facts: Australia's Lost Kingdoms
• Chinese Dinosaur fact sheets: Chinese Dinosaurs

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Geology

• Biological Soil Crusts
• Concretions, Thunder Eggs and Geodes
• Geology of Sydney Harbour: Living Harbour
• Chapman Mineral Collection: searchable database of minerals

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Australian Museum Science

• Lizard Island Research Station
• SEAS - Scavengers of Eastern Australian Seas
• Speciation
• Taxonomy
• Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Research
• Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
• Biological Collections at the Australian Museum

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Evolution

• Biological Collections at the Australian Museum
• Bioprospecting
• Endemism

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Animal Care

• Reptiles as Pets

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Plants

• Bitou Bush - Its Effects on Biodiversity
• Eucalypts
• Proteaceae - Australian plants
• Kelp

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Collecting and specimens

• Biological Collections at the Australian Museum
• Finding dead birds: Birds Website
• Finding birds with bands and other marks: Birds Website

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Kids' stuff

• FAQs for kids visiting the Museum
• Kids FAQs: Indigenous Australia
• Terence Downunder questions and answers

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Water

• Ballast Water - What it is and Why it Poses a Problem
• Mound Springs in Arid Australia
• Waste Water
• Waste Water Recycling - Making the Most of a Precious Resource
• Water Use in Australia