1 Nov 2013WA Museum Cockatoo research in the spotlight Female (left) and male (right) Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos Photo courtesy of T. Kirkby.Read more Blog entry Lintette Umbrello
22 Oct 2013The de Vlamingh plateA detailed examination of the plate at the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne revealed the hidden nature of this weather-ravaged historic pewter plate found at Cape Inscription.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
21 Oct 2013Creature feature - Polyzosteria cuprea Meet Polyzosteria cuprea Saussure, 1863! This native cockroach is endemic to south-western Australia and belongs to a genus of large, wingless and stunningly coloured (by cockroachy standards..) cockroaches found predominantly across southern Australia. Read more Blog entry Niki Comparti
16 Oct 2013WIN TICKETS TO THE VIP COSTARELLA / FROCKSTARS LAUNCH! Winner winner chicken dinner! Read more Blog entry Niki Comparti
3 Sep 2013The little invertebrate that couldPortuguese millipedes have hit the headlines again – for all the wrong reasons!Read more Blog entry Niki Comparti
23 Jul 2013The megamouth results are in!Back in early June we needed to weigh our iconic megamouth shark to test how effective the glycerol solution conservation technique had been in restoring mass to our megamouth shark. At the time, we ran a contest to see who could guess how large the weight gain would be. We can now confirm that Megamouth has gained just under 30% of its original mass through the conservation process, and Jahmila Parthenay - you are our winner! Jahmila entered via Facebook and was the closest of our 21 guesses.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
9 Jul 2013The toys are coming out to playThe Western Australian Museum has a nationally significant collection of 24,000 items that is reflective of Western Australian childhood in all its diversity. The collection was donated to the WA Museum in 2009 by Edith Cowan University and has been in storage since.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
21 Jun 2013Sunny the SunfishOcean Sunfish Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) This magnificent Ocean Sunfish (nicknamed ‘Sunny’ due to the sunglasses used for scale in the photo) was washed up at Jay’s Beach in Augusta in August 2010. This individual is a juvenile by sunfish standards, at around 1.5m nose to tail and 2.2m between fin tips, as they can reach over 4m in length and over 2,000kg.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
19 Jun 2013Returning a 1903 Oldsmobile to its former glory...The 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile (CDO)Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum