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On Saturday we visited the Yorkshire Fossil Festival in Scarborough. Although it is rather late in the year, the weather was glorious. For most of the day there was barely a cloud in the sky. There were plenty of exhibits aimed at people of all ages and interests (e.g. fossils, minerals, meteorites, etc.), including exhibits from the local Rotunda Museum, in addition to those from  further afield, e.g. the Natural History Museum, London, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as well as learned societies such as the Palaeontological Association and the Geological Association. Our author, Dean Lomax (of Dinosaur...

This Saturday and Sunday (19 and 20 September) our author Dean Lomax and co-presenter of the recent Dinosaur Britain TV documentary series will be at the Yorkshire Fossil Festival in Scarborough taking questions from the public & signing copies of his Siri Scientific Press books Dinosaurs of the British Isles & Fossils of the Whitby coast.                                                    Please show your support for Dean and pick up a great book (or two) in the process, signed and...

Every three years the International Society of Arachnology (ISA) organizes a large international conference (the next one is in USA, 2016), with regional (Europe, USA, etc.) meetings being hosted by local societies and held in each of the intervening two years. The next (30th) European meeting will be held in the UK and hosted by Dr Sara Goodacre and colleagues at the University of Nottingham in 2017, as confirmed at the recent European Society of Arachnology conference just held in the Czech Republic. There is no website as yet, but one will be made available in due course and a...

Congratulations to Eva Liznarova (Czech Republic) and Luka Katusic (Italy) who received Siri Scientific Press book tokens as prize winners for their presentations at the 29th European Congress of Arachnology, held in Brno, Czech Republic, which included 173 participants from all over the world (42 different countries). Eva's talk was titled: Is prey-capture efficiency innate or gained by experience in a specialised spider? Kuka's talk was titled: An overview on the Croatian spider fauna. Congratulations to both! Anybody interested in learning more about the cutting edge of spider research, presented at such meetings, should take a look at our edited...

The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) 2015, for which we are official sponsors, is currently underway at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. SSP would like to wish the organizers and all delegates a successful and enjoyable meeting. Don't forget to check out some of our recent vertebrate palaeontology titles: