For the lady in question is Mary Anning, immortalised in The Geographical Society’s 1850 portrait by Benjamin Donne – and she was no retiring Victorian type. Born into a family of impoverished ...

Beneath the impressive white cliff face of Beachy Head I watch as 10-year-old Luke strikes a chisel with his geological hammer and splits open a chalk boulder. His eyes stare at a fossilised mollusc ...

Amateur fossil hunters inspired by films such as Ammonite are descending on beaches in droves. Thousands of enthusiasts dreaming of walking with dinosaurs have taken up the craze as lockdown eases. It ...

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

This story was originally published on Jan. 19, 2022. Lily Ganshorn stood proud as she brushed her hand across an ancient ammonite fossil on display in her family's garage in Martensville, Sask. "I'm ...