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 ...

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 ...

I have been inside Dry Store Room No. 1 twice. The fluorescent lighting casts a thin, blue light on a cold room crammed with zoological curiosities — the most precious specimens of London's Natural ...

Neither names nor place will I reveal, but the year was 1968. We had just heard a lecture delivered by a geological bigwig of the day. His subject had been the new geological synthesis, and he had ...

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”.

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 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 ...

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 ...