Australian Museum reveals never before seen photos to public

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The Australian Museum has revealed a 'rogues gallery' of specimens and photos for the first time to the public.

February 10, 2019 — 5.27pm

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A Half-hatched Emu egg balanced on a glass test tube. Spots on the image indicate that the glass plate may not have been cleaned properly before use, or that the chemicals were contaminated. Credit:Australian Museum

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Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus. This flamingo skeleton was presented to the museum by the trustees of the Zoological Society of New South Wales (Taronga Zoo) in 1893.Credit:Australian Museum

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This elaborate group of tree kangaroos was set up in 1890, and photographed before it was installed in a special custom-made case that was said to have cost the extravagant sum of £13.Credit:Australian Museum

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Bump-head sunfish, Mola alexandrini, captured in Darling Harbour in December 1882, and presented to the Australian Museum by sawmill proprietor Robert Chadwick.Credit:Australian Museum

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Juvenile Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. The skin and skeleton were presented to the museum by the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria in 1884. Credit:Australian Museum

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In order to provide a human scale, museum staff were sometimes posed with specimens. Here the museum's carpenter is posed with the skeleton flipper of a recently acquired Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae. Credit:Australian Museum

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Gerard Krefft with the newly discovered manta ray, Manta alfredi, in the museum's courtyard in 1869. Credit:Australian Museum

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Technical staff of the Australian Museum in 1884, including Robert Barnes (standing, second from left), Henry Barnes (standing, third from left), John A Thorpe (sitting, second from left) and Henry Barnes, jnr (sitting on the ground, left).Credit:Australian Museum

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After being preserved by taxidermists in an outdoor workshop in 1883, the huge sunfish specimen had to enter the museum gallery via the tallest available opening: an upstairs window.Credit:Australian Museum

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White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, crudely propped up on a bucket, with rods to hold its mouth open and show off its teeth and characteristic long, pointed snout.Credit:Australian Museum