We're remembering when Lyme's 'legend of letters', John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, died 20 years ago ...

A 'fabulous' beach in a charming coastal village in Dorset has been praised by visitors for offering stunning views and fossil hunting even in the winter months ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever discovered — at an estimated 290 million years old. Patrick ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

Schools went into lockdown with children said to have been stuck in a leisure centre for hours after a report of a gunman roaming nearby. Pupils were said to be ‘hysterical and sobbing’ and unable to ...

This video takes you inside the truck during the Lyme Regis Carnival. It shows the preparation, setup, and atmosphere from the driver’s view as the parade moves through town. A clear look at community ...

The cliffs in west Dorset are understood to contain thousands of fossils of marine reptiles. Some of the best places to find fossils are beaches across the Jurassic Coast. The most common Jurassic ...

They said it’d be “peaceful fossil hunting.” They didn’t mention the part where every rock looks like wood and every stick looks like regret. Still, finding petrified wood is like shaking hands with ...

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