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6 unusual facts about Queensland Museum


Estuarine whiting

The species was first scientifically described by Roland McKay of the Queensland Museum in 1980, who was the first to recognize it as a distinct species from the anatomically similar S. sihama.

Moorhen

For example, specimen QM F30696, a left distal tibiotarsus piece from the Oligo-Miocene boundary at Riversleigh, is similar to but than and differs in details from "G." disneyi.

Old State Library Building, Brisbane

The building was originally constructed for the Queensland Museum, which stayed in the building for 20 years (1879–1899).

Queensland Museum

There is a large sculpture of a Cicada in front of the centre lift, possibly because the Cultural Centre busway station is the bus stop for the museum.

Ralph Molnar

Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Robert Raven

Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum.


Habronestes

boq is the first spider named after a sponsor (the Bank of Queensland) in a new program by the Queensland Museum.

Maude Bonney

In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler (Harry Bonney's first cousin once removed), a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).

Prethopalpus attenboroughi

The millimeter-long spider was described in 2012 by Dr Barbara Baehr of the Queensland Museum and Professor Mark Harvey of the Western Australian Museum.


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Austrosaurus

The remains were discovered by Mr. H.B. Wade on Clutha Station near Maxwelton in north Queensland in 1932, who alerted the station manager H. Mackillop, who showed his brother who sent them to the Queensland Museum.

Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr

The anti-tank rifle can be found in several museums: Patton Museum, Fort Knox, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, The Imperial War Museum, King's Own Royal Border Regiment and 22nd Cheshire Regiment museums in the United Kingdom, the Army museum at the Invalides, Paris, the Army Museum Bandiana in the City of Wodonga, Australia, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia.

Queensland Herbarium

However, Hill’s successor as Colonial Botanist was Frederick Manson Bailey, an established botanist already in charge of the herbarium at the Queensland Museum.