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Students will explore a range of unique and fascinating transparent animals found in the world’s oceans.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 03.08.2022
This teacher resource sheet is associated with the Lesson: Deep sea animals, adaptations and biology (Year 7-12) and Student Worksheet: Glass animals adaptations and biology (Year 7-12)
Resource type: Teacher Resource SheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
This teacher resource sheet is associated with the Lesson: Deep sea animals, adaptations and biology (Year 5-6) and Student Worksheet: Glass animals adaptations and biology (Year 5-6)
Resource type: Teacher Resource SheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
This teacher resource sheet is associated with the Lesson: Deep sea animals, adaptations and biology (Year 5-6) and Student Worksheet: Glass animals adaptations and biology (Year 5-6)
Resource type: Teacher Resource SheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
This student worksheet is associated with the Lesson: Deep sea animals, adaptations and biology
Resource type: Student WorksheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
This student worksheet is associated with the Lesson: Deep sea animals, adaptations and biology
Resource type: Student WorksheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
Adaptations are specific characteristics of a living thing that increases the likelihood of its species survival in its habitat. Each species has their own suite of adaptations that can be broadly grouped into three categories: structural, functional, and behavioural. Many adaptations can be more than one type. For example, viviparous reproduction involves giving birth to live young. This involves the structural adaptation of a womb and may involve the behavioural adaptation of maternal care of young.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 03.08.2022
In southern Australia, the western blue groper is actually the largest carnivorous bony fish species found living on reefs, reaching a length of up to 1.7m and a weight of up to 40kg. Learn more about the biology of this fish in this fact sheet.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 22.06.2022
This red crab is a terrestrial (land) species of crab found almost exclusively on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
The loggerhead turtle is one of six marine turtles found in Australia, including the green, leatherback, olive ridley, hawksbill and flatback turtles.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Swaying in the current, anchored by their grasping tails, seahorses are actually a type of small fish - with bony plates protecting their bodies instead of scales.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
The unusual-looking sawfish family are a type of ray and are therefore related to sharks . Found in both marine and freshwater, these predatory fish derive their name from their long snouts lines with sharp points. An identification and general information guide on Sawfish.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Mud crabs are prized by recreational fishers for their impressive size and delicious taste.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Cobbler or catfish as they are known outside Western Australia, are 'endemic' to Australia, meaning they're only found here. They live in the southern half of the country, in coastal and estuarine waters up to about 30 metres deep.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
This fact sheet covers information on the biology and ecology of the Baldchin groper.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
This fact sheet provides information about blue swimmer crabs, a tropical crustacean species found in Western Australia mainly between Karratha and Dunsborough. Also known as a blue manna crab, it is an important recreational and commercial fishing species.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Pink snapper are one of Western Australia's best-known and most sought-after fish. This fact sheet provides information on the widely distributed Pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) and their biology.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
With their goggling, oddly placed eyes and their whisker-like pectoral filaments, threadfins are one of the weirder looking Western Australian fish species. Find out more about the biology of these weird looking fish and the commercial fishery in this fact sheet.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Barramundi are a highly opportunistic, dominant fish species in many tropical rivers. Delicious to eat and thrilling to catch, they live in both freshwater and saltwater and eat just about anything.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Found in the tropical and warm temperate marine waters of the Indo-Pacific, many estuary cod are caught accidentally by anglers seeking mangrove jack and barramundi in creeks, or emperors over inshore reefs.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
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