Mantell’s bones

30 April 2019 by Tiff Kirby

The drawing looks like a jumble of bones. It’s an animal, a vertebrate, and we might now guess a dinosaur,…

Birds, bones and stones

27 March 2013 by Katherine Ford

The Archaeopteryx is possibly the most famous fossilised bird in scientific history.

1 November 2012 by Katherine Ford

Richard Owen FRS (1804-1892) appears to have had an almost exceptional ability to offend those around him, especially those working…

3 November 2010 by Keith Moore

The coastline around Lyme Regis was bathed in half-term autumn sunshine for most of last week and its cliffs were…