At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the cliffs of Lyme Regis in southern England were notorious for their dangerous landslides and bizarre fossils buried in them. To one local family, these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teen, road trips to Dorset meant three things: Moores biscuits, swimming at the Durdle Door arch, and fossil hunting. We ...

Crowds have descended on a seaside town for an annual festival celebrating the Jurassic Coast and its role in the history of fossil finding. Set against the dramatic cliffs and beaches where important ...

An amateur fossil hunter has found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile during a guided walk along the Jurassic Coast. "It is a very, very rare find, and fossil collecting has been ...

Along a stretch of England’s southern shoreline, gangs of small children roam the beaches wielding hammers and searching for remains in the rocks. This is not some post-apocalyptic scene, a day at the ...