Spiders and their relatives
Spiders, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipspiders, harvestmen, ticks and mites are ancient animals with a history going back many millions of years.
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Insects
Insects are an amazingly diverse group of animals that have conquered almost every environment on earth and play an essential role in the web of life. Explore their fascinating world.
Marine invertebrates
Marine invertebrates are a large group, including corals, sea anemones, sponges, sea fans, sea stars, sea urchins and cunjevoi, as well as many crustaceans, molluscs and worms.
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Molluscs
Molluscs include chitons, clams, mussels, snails, sea slugs, tusk shells, octopus and squid.
Centipedes and millipedes
Both centipedes and millipedes have many pairs of legs. Leaf litter, soil and the underside of logs are their preferred habitats.
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Crustaceans
Crustaceans have segmented bodies, seven or more pairs of appendages, two-branched limbs, gills and two pairs of antennae.
Worms
Worms include flatworms, roundworms and the segmented worms: earthworms, leeches and marine polychaete worms.
Fishes
Fishes show a startling variety of body forms and behaviours. They range from the massive whale shark down to the smallest fishes that are adults at well under a centimetre in length.
Mammals
Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that suckle their young and have hair. The three main groups are all represented in Australia.
Frogs
The only native Australian amphibians, frogs have soft, moist skin, short straight ribs and a two phase life cycle.
Reptiles
Reptiles have scaly skin, long robust ribs encircling their internal organs, and have 'live' young or lay shelled eggs.
Birds
Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates that have feathers, wings, scaly legs, bills without teeth and lay eggs.
Biodiversity
Explore biodiversity as we experience, study and communicate it at the Australian Museum
Wildlife of Sydney
The Sydney region has a huge array of animals in land, freshwater and marine habitats.
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Wild Kids
Wild Kids is a doorway to lots of interesting information about a range of Australian animals and the habitats they are found in.
Australia's extinct animals
Step back in time and take a journey through an ever-changing Australia from millions of years ago to the present. Find dinosaurs and other extinct animals.
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Beyond the Reef
The clear blue waters beyond the Great Barrier Reef may look empty and barren, but on closer inspection they are teeming with life: plankton.
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