Dorset’s landscapes are the setting for the rural traditions preserved in Thomas Hardy’s novels and for Enid Blyton’s childhood adventures; a place where green ridges link villages of thatched ...
Just down the shore from where children build sand castles and parents relax beneath brightly colored umbrellas, fossil hunters chip away, hoping to uncover a piece of England’s prehistoric past. They ...
A new study has uncovered a new thalattosuchian – an ancient ‘sister’ of modern-day crocodiles’ ancestors. The discovery of Turnersuchus hingleyae follows an impressive unearthing of fossils on the ...
The lucky discovery of an ichthyosaur was made on what's known as the 'Jurassic Coast.' An example of an ichthyosaur, exhibited at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A similar ...
With the curtains drawing earlier by the day, there's never been a better time to break for the coast and immerse yourself in ...
(CNN) — The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets ...
The gigantic skull of a predatory sea monster that preyed in the oceans millions of years ago has been excavated from a cliff in the United Kingdom in what scientists are saying is one of the most ...
Fifty-nine species of Foraminifera are recorded from the Upper Jurassic Corallian Beds exposed on the coast of Dorset, England. The most abundant and diverse family in the assemblage is the Lagenidae, ...
Proposals for a further section of Dorset's Jurassic coastline to form part of the England Coast Path have been revealed. Natural England (NE) wants to develop a new route along a 42 mile (67 km) ...
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