Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have ...

An exhibition of the Shaanxi terracotta warriors in Perth is slated as the largest of its kind outside China. Some artefacts ...

Exhibits are pictured during the media preview of the "Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor" exhibition at the ...

The Western Australian Museum’s history reflects and documents the State’s rich and diverse natural and cultural heritage. Established in 1891 in the old Perth gaol, it was known as the Geological ...

At the Western Australian Museum's Boola Bardip campus in Perth, you'll find exhibits exploring the state's fascinating and often troubled relationship with the indigenous Nyunga people.

Item 1 of 3 Professor Kate Trinajstic from Curtin University?s School of Molecular and Life Sciences inspects fish fossils dating to 380 million years ago at the Western Australian Museum in Perth ...

The night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) specimen, now on public display at WA Museum Boola Bardip.Image credit: Arianna Urso/Western Australian Museum. First discovered by Europeans in 1845, night ...

Photograph courtesy the Western Australia Museum. Australian media became fixated on the search for these ships, which weren’t found until 2008, about 180 miles west of the WA town of Carnarvon.

A moth discovered in a park in West London has turned out to be a new species native to Western Australia. Specimens of the hitchhiking insect have been sitting undescribed in the Natural History ...

Photos from Western Australian Museum via Verhoeff (2025) Carnarvon flapjack octopuses can reach about 7.5 inches in length but shrink after being preserved, the study said.

The process of describing these two new species was actually started more than 20 years ago, by scientists who were working at the Western Australian Museum at the time.

This Western Australian museum just acquired a very old glory hole “It’s really an important part of social history and this is how we used to have sex at a time when it [homosexuality] was ...