My visit to the Australia Museum by Josh!

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This is me on a bike. It shows you how your bones move when you cycle.

This is the skeleton of a huge snake!  They have lots & lots of bones. 

This is a skeleton of a swordfish!!! Swordfish live in all Australia waters.  They come to the surface at night time & stay deep in the day. Swordfish are black & brown on the top & light brown underneath. Adult swordfish have no teeth or scales.  They use their sword to protect themselves & to catch food! 

This bear is huge! There are no brown bears in Australia! 

This is a platypus! You can only find them in Australia.  They spend time in the water & on land. When they are in the water they close their eyes, ears & nose.  They use their bill to sense movement.  They can stay under water for 30-140 seconds. They lay eggs in a burrow and once they hatch they stay in the burrow for up to 4 months.  They have webbed feet for swimming, but once on land they roll their webs up and walk on their claws. 

Skeleton of an Asian elephant! This elephant would have weighed about 6 tones.  Their trunk is super sensitive.  Girl Asian elephants don't have tusks. They mostly live in India. 

Wedge-tailed eagle

This is Austrailia's largest bird of prey and one of the largest Eagles in the world. They like to eat rabbits, lizards and birds.

European Fox in Australia

He is the number 1 preditator in Australia.  Some Australian animals like the rock-wallaby, numbat, brush-tailed betting & the bilby are endangered because of them.  

Check out the claws on this guy!!!!

This is a boat made by the Aboriginals.  The Aboriginals are the people who lived in Australia before the ships came from England.  It's made from the tree bark.  The bark is made really wet, then they shape it like a boat and put it over fire to dry it to make it hard.  They use the boats for fishing & transporting goods. 

The Sydney's Harbour Bridge & The Opera House made of shells! 

Boomerangs!!!!

Taking a closer look at some shells. 

They actually have penguins living at Manly. 

         Don't want to meet this guy when we are swimming at the beach!

                  These are some of the sealife & shells you can find around Sydney's beaches. 

        Dinosaur time!! 

We spent all afternoon in the museum and would recomend a visit if you ever come to Sydney!!