Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Fortey, head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum - Alamy ​Richard Fortey, who has died aged 79, ...

Welcome to Grim’s Dyke Wood, a 4-acre patch of forest and clearings situated in the larger surroundings of Lambridge Wood amid the Chiltern Hills outside Henley-on-Thames, west of London. Richard ...

The map on the hotel wall said “Good fossils here”, so Richard Fortey, then 14, did not hesitate. He seized his geologist’s hammer, braved the gorse and got down to the beach. It was a typical British ...

In a fascinating study being touted as the book of his career, the science writer Richard Fortey (author of Trilobite! and Life: An Unauthorised Biography) reveals the geological development of our ...

Author, television presenter and palaeontologist Richard Fortey died on Friday 7th March aged 79 following a short battle with cancer, his publisher William Collins has announced “with great sadness”.

Riveting books about geology are rare for good reason: Rocks, by and large, are dull. Mostly they just sit there, doing very little of interest, for a very, very long time. Or, at least, that was my ...

In 1586, William Camden reported in Britannia, his travel guide to British curiosities, that the bones of giants had been discovered in Essex. The evidence took the form of limb bones the size of ...

Sara Lippincott is a freelance editor specializing in science. Dry Storeroom No. 1 A book called “Dry Storeroom No. 1” may not often get riffled through at your local Borders. This is too bad. Its ...

OBVIOUS truths often evade definition—as is exemplified by Louis Armstrong's retort to a fan's request for a definition of jazz: “Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.” Richard Fortey, a ...

In 1901, a frozen mammoth’s penis was discovered on the Berezovka River in Siberia. The organ was erect, nearly three feet long and, having been flattened in the icy tundra, eight inches in diameter.