Fifty years of change on iconic limestone pavements has revealed mixed fortunes for one of the most distinctive landscapes in the UK. The findings, which reveal large changes since the 1970s, are from ...
The skull - when lifted in a block of fossilised clay - weighed a tonne The largest UK example of a predator that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs has been uncovered. The 33ft (10m ...
Some of the oldest fossils of "complex life" in the world have been found in a quarry in Wales. It is the first time such fossils have been precisely dated by scientists. The research shines a ...
Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed of English Longhorn cattle, the roughly 183-million-year-old fossils are stunningly well preserved like they were frozen in time. Contained within ...
The specimen in question is an exquisite fossil of a gossamer-winged butterfly from the Isle of Wight. It is the only representative of its species ever found. Discovered in the Insect Limestone at ...
Listen: Fossil-hunters Neville and Sally Hollingworth on their find Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator Huge fossilised ‘sea dragon’ found in UK reservoir Sally Hollingworth The ...
The Museum’s specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica originates from the latest Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany. It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl ...