Behind the scenes of facial muscle research in Western Australia’s fossil koalas Associate Professor Natalie Warburton My recent publication in R Soc Open Sci. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251572 with Dr Kenny Travouillon and team at the WA Museum has generated excitement in the palaeontology world with the discovery of a new fossil koala from the Pleistocene of Western…
Category: wildlife ecology
Bustards without Borders – Trip to Pakistan
By Saurav Lamichhane. My journey commenced with an 11-hour flight from Perth to Doha, followed by a luxurious 14-hour transit session at Hamad International Airport, Doha, and then a final 3-hour hop to Islamabad. After nearly 30 hours of travel (and enough airplane meals to last a lifetime), I finally landed at Islamabad Airport for…
Five Noongar eagles take to the sky
Simon Cherriman has been placing satellite-trackers on juvenile wedge-tailed eagles as part of his PhD studies. His project is investigating juvenile dispersal in these iconic birds, comparing how birds from arid and mesic parts of WA move when they leave the nest. Recently, five birds from the Perth region have been ‘sat-tagged’ – Simon will…
Bilby Indigenous Knowledge Festival at Kiwirrkurra
By Stuart Dawson. Last week I attended the Bilby Indigenous Knowledge Festival in Kiwirrkurra to share expertise and findings with Indigenous rangers, landowners, scientists and land managers. These are my unique experiences at this celebration of this important vulnerable species. As we arrived in Kiwirrkurra, the most remote community in Australia, at 1am, three things…
