Excitement is building for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival which is now just days away. Firmly established as the UK’s largest palaeontological event, leading palaeontologists, experts, artists and ...

Swiss director Marcel Barelli brings Mary Anning's inspiring childhood to life in an empowering animated feature debut, ...

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In the fall of 2016, when Wilder was first appointed interim director, he stumbled across an extensive, yet unkempt fossil collection in a back room of a lab building on the hill. He later learned ...

There, the Wankel rex will be on loan for 50 years as the centerpiece of the museum’s new 31,000-square-foot national fossil hall, which will open in 2019. “It’s about time the Smithsonian ...