An estimated 4,000 tons of debris—including rocks the size of cars—has collapsed onto a beach along Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. Because this part of Britain is packed with fossils, the rockfall is likely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Jurassic Coast is England’s only natural World Heritage Site and is valued for its rocks and fossils. It stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in Dorset – and the 95 ...
In England, the “sword dragon” is discovered, a new species of Jurassic ichthyosaur that reveals clues about marine evolution ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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) ...
The Jurassic Coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on England's south coast, stretching from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset. It contains 185 million years of geological history, with ...
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, ...
The discovery of the six-foot-long fossil could offer new clues about the pliosaur, known as the largest carnivorous reptile to ever live. By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Derrick Bryson Taylor In the spring ...