Aug 20, 2026 | Latest
Every museum label tells a story. Most visitors read the species name, the collector, the date. They rarely see the names of the people who made the science possible; the hands that sorted, the eyes that separated, the patience that turned chaotic field samples into...
Aug 19, 2026 | Latest
On 21 December 1938, a 31-year-old museum curator saved a fish no one could name. It turned out to be a coelacanth; a fish thought to have vanished some 65 million years ago. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was born in East London on 24 February 1907, and in 1936 she...
Aug 18, 2026 | Latest
Figure 1. Flag Mantis (Polyspilota aeruginosa) immature feeding on a Brown Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum) in captivity. Photos by Paul Janse van Rensburg. Article contributed by Riaan Stals, South African National Collection of Insects The behaviour and biology of...
Aug 14, 2026 | Latest
This Women’s Month, the Natural Science Collections Facility is asking South Africa to meet the women behind the country’s collections — and to add the next names to the record. Every specimen in South Africa’s natural science collections carries a...
