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 ...

Towns across Cornwall and Devon, such as Salcombe, Polzeath and St Ives, regularly feature on lists ranking the best seaside ...

First held in 2005, the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival was founded to celebrate the town’s rich geological heritage and its role in some of the most important fossil discoveries in history - most famously ...

After this excitement, head downstairs to the dinosaur and fossil collection, where you can learn about the Earth's prehistory and the creatures that called this planet home before us. Here you'll ...

We have created a set of 4 activities, each linked to the work of one of the featured women. Make your own sea slime, build a fossil collection, make botanical art and origami DNA! Download the ...

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

They will be supported by activities and exhibitions from Museums and organisations such as the Natural History Museum, Dinosaur Isle, and The Etches Collection ... fossil-hunting icon, Mary Anning.

The significance of such specimens underscores why scientific access should be prioritized over private fossil collection, Chapman added. When fossils are sold for profit and private display ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning found some of the first known fossils of ancient animals such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pterosaurs, before the term “dinosaur” had been invented. Anning ...