DOES THE BROOM ROOM HAVE ANY BROOMS?
By: Lazarus Kgasi, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History The Broom Room (Fig.1) at the DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History (DNMNH) is a room/vault named after Dr Robert Broom, a flamboyant South African Palaeontologist (1866-1951), and houses the earliest finds
ICHTHYOSAURUS
By: Heidi Fourie, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History In 1811, eleven-year-old Mary Anning and her brother Joseph were collecting shells and fossils for their widowed mother to sell in her tourist store in Lyme Regis, in southern England, when
Love Birds
Love Bird is the common name for the genus Agapornis. There are 9 known species of Lovebirds. Lovebirds are among the smallest of the parrot species. They range in size from just over 13 cm to 17. .
HERITAGE MONTH 2023
The 2023 Heritage Month brings focus to South Africa’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and its immense contribution to our social, economic, health, and scientific well-being especially for rural, township, and peri-urban communities. Annually, September marks Heritage Month with Heritage Day
MRS PLES (STS 5) FROM THE STERKFONTEIN CAVES, SOUTH AFRICA
By: Francis Thackeray, Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and Lazarus Kgasi, Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History “Mrs Ples” (Sts 5) is the nickname of a Plio-Pleistocene skull (Fig. 1) attributed to Australopithecus africanus,
A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER WHO BECAME A PALAEONTOLOGIST
By: Lazarus Kgasi, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History In the history of South African science, Robert Broom ranks among the most flamboyant and controversial individuals. The tall, eccentric doctor, who was born in Scotland, is most known for
2023 FIELDWORK AT BOLT’S FARM CAVE SYSTEM
By: Lazarus Kgasi, Junior Curator: DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History The Bolt’s farm team, under the leadership of Dominique Gommery from, Centre National de Recherché Scientifique and Sorbonne University in France, has been meticulously excavating fossils from the Bolt's Farm
OBITUARY: BOB BRAIN
(7 May 1931 - 6 June 2023) By: Lazarus Kgasi & Teresa Kearney, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History As a measure of the many achievements in his life there have been numerous tributes to Dr Charles Kimberlin [Bob] Brain before and
BOLT’S FARM EXHIBITION: WHERE KIDS LEARN WHILST HAVING FUN
By: Lazarus Kgasi, Junior Curator and Tebogo Pitso, education officer: DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History The DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History (DNMNH) is a renowned science research institution as well as one of the best tourist destinations in Tshwane.