Oct 17, 2017 | Iconic Specimens
Eggs with embryos belonging to the southern African dinosaur Massospondylus were discovered in 1978 from a road cut-away in the Golden Gate National Park in the Free State. These dinosaurs lived in the early Jurassic, between 200 and 183 million years ago. A clutch of...
Oct 17, 2017 | Iconic Specimens
The oldest preserved plant specimen in the National Herbarium, Pretoria is Erica mammosa, which was collected by William John Burchell, ( 1781-1863) on the 31st January 1811 on the Cape Flats. Image: Pressed herbarium sheet in the National Herbarium, Pretoria of Erica...
Oct 17, 2017 | Iconic Specimens
The coelacanth was known from fossils dating from about 360 years ago and was thought to have gone extinct about 65 million years ago. In 1938 a specimen was caught by fishermen off the Eastern Cape coast and the Captain of the trawler notified the curator of the East...
Oct 17, 2017 | New Species
A new grapevine leafminer from South Africa by Erik J. van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, The Netherlands and Henk Geertsema, Stellenbosch University A new species of grapevine leafminer was described from material collected from table grape orchards...
Oct 17, 2017 | New Species
A new species of fruit chafer from iSimangaliso Wetland Park by Prof Renzo Perissinotto, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. This new species of beetle is only known from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal. Material from Ditsong National Museum of...
