Fragments of the Maadi Rope being weighed.

23 Apr 2014

Enough Rope

We've dated the Rope!

A close up section of the Mardi Rope Image copyright WA Museum 

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Xavier Leenders

A stylised 3D render of Hackett Hall Gallery

8 Apr 2014

Zebedee and CSIRO visit the WA Museum

In March 2014 the Museum was lucky enough to welcome the CSIRO robotics team to talk about 3D mapping of physical spaces and digital preservation of significant locations.

We hope for this to be the start of a longer-term partnership, and as such, I plan to write some blogs about any advances that we may experience. But to start with, and very excitingly, the CSIRO team brought along their wonderful creation: Zebedee.

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Thousands of shiny brown beetles swarm on the gound

21 Feb 2014

Beetle Mania!

Image courtesy of Craig O’Keefe

The Museum Entomology section often receives public enquiries from concerned citizens who have been inundated with various creepy crawlies, though this one is particularly like a scene from a horror film!

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Lintette Umbrello

Frontal view of the Kashmiri Kangri basket.

3 Feb 2014

The Kashmiri Kangri

A recent acquisition in  the Anthropology & Archaeology Department

Written By Megan Williams

Image copyright WA Museum 

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Xavier Leenders

the white egg-cases of a marine snail, Syrinx aruanus

2 Dec 2013

What is this?!

Today we received this ID request from our Twitter follower, Sue Hill:

Corey, Courtney, Zoe and Lisa from our Aquatic Zoology team were on the case!

"It is the egg-case of Syrinx aruanus.

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Niki Comparti

Two live individuals of Temnosewellia minor

27 Nov 2013

Friendly Flatworms: The Temnocephalida

We recently had a phone call from a curious citizen, Andrea Davy, who had noticed that the yabbies and marron in one of her ponds were crawling with some very strange animals. Fearing some kind of parasitic invasion she brought them to the Museum for identification.

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Andrew Hosie

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