Weymouth’s pop-up museum is unearthing something rather special this spring. From March 6 to May 31, “Look What I Found!” invites visitors to explore the world beneath our feet — through the eyes of ...

Whilst we adore British beaches, occasionally all manner of unexpected treasures can wash ashore. Throughout the years, seaside visitors have discovered an array of bizarre and marvellous objects ...

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Massive underwater creatures related to squid and octopus once lived off the British coast before they were made extinct by a meteor strike, scientists have found. The giant ammonites, which measured ...

Huge ancestors of squid up to 1.8 metres wide once littered the sea floor in what is now East Sussex before being wiped out by a meteor, according to new research. Giant ammonites once thrived on both ...

Giant ammonites once thrived on both sides of the Atlantic – in southern England and Mexico – before suffering the same fate as the dinosaurs. The largest ammonite specimen in the world housed in the ...

The graduated arrangement of the pedal digits with the narrowest digit located medially and the widest digit laterally placed most closely resembles the syndactyl (e.g., Alcedinidae, Meropidae) ...