2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (714+ words) An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it. The upper jawbone fossil, found during a guided walk along the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (564+ words) A woman who bought a second-hand book while on holiday has helped return it to the family of its original owner more than 50 years later. Nicola Lomax, from Ramsbottom in Lancashire, spotted the copy of The House of the Pelican…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (378+ words) For this baby Pachyrhinosaurus, a400-mile journey is filled with predators and challenges. Staying close to the herd is the only chance of making it through the wilderness alive. This clip is from the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs. Expert says…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (523+ words) A fragment of a letter written by palaeontologist Mary Anning in which she says she is "sick" of fossils has sold for more than "15, 000 at auction. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life but…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (387+ words) It is not often that mystery surrounds the return of a library book. And at first glance, the return of one on loan from a library in the West Midlands would not seem something to cause a lot of fuss....

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (581+ words) Rare items including a printed atlas from 1611 and an original Sherlock Holmes story are among some of the valuable treasures currently being curated in the basement of a Sheffield library. The city's Central Library is working its way through six…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (562+ words) A museum is raising money to buy a fragment of a letter written by palaeontologist Mary Anning in which she says she is "sick" of fossils. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life but…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1128+ words) Asin tibuok is one of the world's rarest salts, and it's only produced on one small island. But thanks to chefs and Tik Tokers, this prehistoric-looking orb is now being revived. This is asin tibuok, which means "unbroken salt", but…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (375+ words) A full-scale model skeleton of one of the largest creatures to ever walk on Earth is to go on display outside of London for the first time. The cast of the Patagotitan Mayorum dinosaur measures 37m (121ft) from head to tail and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (452+ words) A palaeontologist who worked as an adviser on several Jurassic Park films has left his role at Chapman University, weeks after emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein were released. The 2012 emails show Jack Horner visited the convicted sex offender's New…...