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

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

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,

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

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.

By: S.A. Makubung, Herpetology Department, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History   African Giant Bullfrog (also known as Letlametlo). Family: Pyxicephlidae Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Genus: Pyxicephalus Species: adsperus   African or /Giant Bullfrog (Source: https://www.everythingreptiles.com/pixie-frog/). The African Bullfrog, also known as the Giant Bullfrog or South African Burrowing

Lazarus Kgadi, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History In the Gauteng region of South Africa's Cradle of Humankind-World Heritage Site lies a palaeontological site known as Minnaar's Cave, or simply Minnaar. Five neighbouring palaeontological sites from Minnaar’s in the Cradle of

By: Lazarus Kgasi, DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History   It is essential for knowledge dissemination that the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (associated with the National Museum of Natural History of Paris and Sorbonne University), the University of Johannesburg,