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 ...

Paleontology wouldn’t be the same without Mary Anning. She scoured the dreary coast of southern England for secrets not seen since the Jurassic, fueling the nascent 19th-century field of fossil ...

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 ...

Hollywood star Kate Winslet has a new hobby she really digs: she likes to go fossil hunting. The Titanic actress says she has become quite an expert on the subject after researching her latest role as ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fashions move on, a character says with some edge to their voice in the stark 19th-century romance Ammonite. The film’s ...

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 ...