30 Sep 2010Creature Feature - The Striated Hermit CrabThe Striated Hermit Crab, Dardanus arrosor (Herbst, 1796); or Lonesome No More!Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
30 Sep 2010Darwin's animals: BarnaclesDiana Jones Executive Director, Collection and Content Development Charles Darwin formulated his ideas of evolution through his study of barnacles. Today we are living in the Age of Barnacles. They occur from estuaries to the deepest depths of the ocean. Join Diana Jones as she discusses the diverse world of Darwin's "beloved barnacles", their beauty, the potential threat to their habitats, and their uses in forensic medicine, dentistry and the space industry. Read more Video Western Australian Museum
14 Sep 2010Creatures of the night: WA’s frogs and geckosDr Paul Doughty Curator of Herpetology, Terrestrial Zoology Recent research into the two strictly nocturnal groups of frogs and geckos have revealed more diversity than previously thought. Join Dr Paul Doughty as he explores basic biology including mating calls of frogs and the feet of geckos, and view some of the first images of recent discoveries of these exciting new species. Read more Video Western Australian Museum
6 Sep 2010Artificial reefs – are they suitable habitats for fish?Sue Morrison Acting Curator, Aquatic Zoology Fish monitoring of the decommissioned HMAS Swan artificial reef in Dunsborough examines whether an ex-naval ship is a suitable alternative habitat for local fishes. Read more Video Western Australian Museum
31 Aug 2010Creature Feature: The Japanese Shame-Faced CrabThe Japanese Shame-Faced Crab, Calappa japonica Ortmann, 1892. The Japanese shame-faced crab was originally discovered in Tokyo Bay, Japan but has since been found as far away as Africa and can be found in depths up to ~250 m. This spectacular red and yellow crab was first reported in Western Australia only as recently as 1989 when crayfishers, off Rottnest Island, caught an unfortunate specimen in a craypot. The specimen in the photos was collected this year, near Ningaloo reef in 230 m.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
Maritime Archaeology - A compendium of projects, programmes and publications 1971–2003Departmental resources | Updated 1 decade agoThis page contains a link to a book which is a compendium of the work of the Maritime Archaeology department carried out over the period since the Department’s formation in the 1970s up to the end of 2003. More information
23 Aug 2010Collecting marine life in the KimberleyClay Bryce Senior Project Officer, Aquatic Zoology Since 1976 the WA Museum has been investigating the marine fauna in the Kimberley creating an immense body of marine biodiversity knowledge for the region. This research has continued to the present day. Join Clay Bryce on a journey that will take you from historic biological collecting practices through to today's modern methods. And all this done in the sometimes hair-raising territory of sharks and crocodiles! Read more Video Western Australian Museum
3 Aug 2010Seabirds of Western AustraliaRon Johnstone Curator of Ornithology, Terrestrial Zoology Seabirds are great bio-indicators of the marine environment from the equator to the poles. The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean covering 20% of the Earth's surface. Over the past 40 years there have been dynamic changes in the distributions, status and abundance of many of the seabirds occurring in Western Australia and the eastern Indian Ocean region including Indonesia, Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Timor Sea, the Southern Ocean and the sub-Antarctic.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
Cockatoo CareDepartmental resources | Updated 1 decade agoCockatoo Care was introduced in September 2001 as a joint initiative of the Water Corporation and the Western Australian Museum. The objectives of the program have been to research the distribution and ecology of Carnaby's, Baudin's and Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos and threats to their survival, and to implement measures to encourage the conservation of these birds. This has been through habitat enhancement, feral bee research and community education and involvement. More information
Aquatic Zoology blogsDepartmental resources | Updated 1 decade agoThe Aquatic Zoology department runs a blog cataloguing important and unusual species found in Western Australia. Our blogs focus on Crustaceans and Fish. More information
Materials Conservation BlogDepartmental resources | Updated 1 decade agoThe Materials Conversation department keeps a blog of its recent conversation activities. Includes our major restorative work on the HMAS Ovens at the Western Australian Museum - Maritime. Our blog can be found on Museum's blog section. More information
15 Jul 2010Darwin’s Opera House Barnacle - species of the monthCalantica darwini Jones & Hosie, 2009 Described and named only last year, these tiny stalked barnacles are only known from the deep water off the coast of north Western Australia and are easily overlooked due to their small size (<1 cm in height!) and their habit of attaching to the branches of deep sea corals. With a bit of imagination, a cluster of these tiny barnacles resembles the Sydney Opera House, hence their common name.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum