Western Australian Museum

Our palaeontology team is unearthing multiple Diprotodon skeletons near Karratha! 🌏

These ancient marsupials, related to koalas and wombats, weighed up to 2.8T, and excavation is crucial to preserve them from flood damage.

Stay tuned! More to come 🐨
@WAMuseumFdn @SinoIron

Get SQUIDcited 🦑

Dr. Kat Bolstad, a deep-sea squid expert from @ALCESonline at @AUTuni, is joining us soon at the WA Museum Collections & Research facility to identify the diverse deep-sea squids collected during the @CSIRO 2022 RV Investigator expedition.

Stay tuned!

How would you handle a Night at the Museum? We've invited Pete, Matt & Kymba from @Mix945Perth to find out tonight as they 'entomb' themselves in our Discovering Ancient Egypt Exhibition.

Tune in to their live broadcast from Boola Bardip Friday from 5:30am to hear all about it.

Incredible discoveries up to 5,000m below sea level in WA's Gascoyne Marine Park. @KirkendaleLisa @WestOzFish and Dr. Andrew Hosie from WA Museum were part of the team who made astonishing findings.

Led by @CSIRO, dive into our web story here: bit.ly/WAMBB_Gascoyne…

WA Museum scientists @KirkendaleLisa and Dr. Andrew Hosie were part of the team who made astonishing findings in the deep sea in WA's Gascoyne Marine Park.