THE countdown is on for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, now firmly established as the UK’s largest palaeontological event. Over the weekend of June 14 and 15, leading palaeontologists, experts, ...

Tasks should be personally meaningful, challenging, and open-ended, allowing children autonomy over aspects of their learning ...

The “cabinet of curiosities” has heaps of “incredible pieces” squeezed into a small museum - it will be busy in the summer ...

In his first ever 3D documentary, Sir David fronted Flying Monsters 3D, a film about Pterosaurs, an extinct flying reptile whose fossilised remains were discovered in Lyme by Mary Anning. Lyme Regis ...

Fossil hunter Jack Wonfor ... to donate this one to the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown, Isle of Wight. Mary Anning is Britain's most famous fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.

Both authors begin with Mary Anning, a self-taught fossil hunter who was the impoverished daughter of a cabinetmaker. One day in 1811, in a fossil-rich area near her home in Lyme Regis ...

In the history of palaeontology, few names shine as brightly as Mary Anning’s ... solidifying her place as a preeminent fossil hunter. Through meticulous documentation and classification ...

Photograph courtesy Laurel Black / Facebook A South Carolina fossil hunter is lucky to be alive and with both arms intact after a near-death encounter with an alligator last week. William Georgitis, ...

The discovery has led some to compare Ruby to Mary Anning, a 19th-century British fossil hunter and anatomist. At 12, Anning also found ichthyosaur fossils on a beach. “I think Mary Anning was ...

The role of Ruby Reynolds in the discovery has led to comparisons with Mary Anning, the 19th century British fossil hunter and anatomist who, among other things, discovered ichthyosaur fossils ...

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...

A SET of stamps charting the age of the dinosaurs and recognising the work of 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning have been released by Royal Mail. The palaeontologist features on the stamps ...