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 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.         .     

(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