News — Forthcoming title

We are very pleased to announce that the final title by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers in the Dorset Fossil Coast series will be available at the beginning of May, 2021. Once again, it will be full of stunning photography and the remarkable prehistoric life and scene reconstructions by Andreas Kurpisz. Siri Scientific Press (2021) 978-1-8381528-2-6, 192 pp, 240 x 165 mm, soft cover, 200+ colour photographs & illustrations. From the back cover This is the third in a series of highly acclaimed and informative guides to the safe and responsible collection of fossils along the Dorset coast. The focus...

For #fossilfriday, we are very pleased to announce that the following title has been accepted for production: Fossils of the Big Hill Konservat-Lagerstatte: A Remarkable Late Ordovician Paleobiota from Michigan, USA by Ronald C. Meyer & Gerald O. Gunderson. The authors originally stumbled on to an outcrop that caught their eye while collecting in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A portion of this exposure is made up of fine textured dolostone, and is separated by a few layers of dolomitic shale. The geologic setting at this site is close to the Silurian Period, but is actually near the top of...

We are very pleased to announce that the advance copies our latest title, A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the South Dorset Coast, by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers (and with prehistoric life and scene reconstructions by Andreas Kurpisz), have just been received. This title is due for formal release on 1st March, but there is still time to order it at the pre-release discount rate! Click the cover to go to the product page for more info and to order your advance copy. From the back cover This is the second in a series of guides on the safe...

We are very pleased to announce that the second volume in the Dorset Coast Fossil Collecting series by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers, with prehistoric life and scene reconstructions by Andreas Kurpisz, is now available for preorder at 15% discount. A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the South Dorset CoastSiri Scientific Press (due 1 Feb, 2020) 978-0-9957496-8-9 RRP £18.99224 pp, 240 x 165 mm, soft cover, 300 colour photographs & illustrations IN PREP for FEB 2020 - Available to pre-order now at 15% discount (click cover below to go to the product page and pre-order and advance copy now) From...

We are very pleased to announce that we will shortly be publishing the second edition of the highly acclaimed True Bugs of the World. The first edition, often referred to as 'The Red Book', published in 1995 by Cornell University Press and authored by Randall T. Schuh & James Alexander Slater ran to 336 pages. The second edition of this monumental reference work, now titled: TRUE BUGS OF THE WORLD (HEMIPTERA: HETEROPTERA): Classification and Natural History (Second Edition) has been prepared by Randall T. Schuh (American Museum of Natural History) & Christiane Weirauch (University of California, Riverside) and runs to a...