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We are very pleased to announce that a nice new review of our recent title: British Polacanthid Dinosaurs by William T. Blows, has just been published in the latest Newsletter of the Palaeontological Association (March 2017, number 94: 97-98) and are pleased to offer a further reduction of £5.00 on our already discounted price using the code: PALASS17 until Sunday. The following is taken from the review (slightly edited): The bulk of the monograph, chapters 3 to 7, are a description of the skeleton as preserved in individual specimens in museum collections. These chapters are richly illustrated with photographs, mostly...

We are pleased to announce that our latest title: Field Guide to Butterflies of the Philippines is due for formal release on 1st May (though we expect to have some advance copies available for distribution before then) and is now available for pre-order at a discount of 20%. Just click the cover image below to go to the product page where you can find out more about this title and pre-order your copy. This discount will be available for a limited time only, so take a look now to make sure you don't miss out.

We are very pleased to announce the following forthcoming title due out in January/February 2017: Fossil Collecting in England and Wales by Steve Snowball and Craig Chapman. Click the cover to go to the product page and pre-order your copy now. by Steve Snowball and Craig ChapmanSiri Scientific Press (2017) 978-0-9929979-9-1 RRP £18.00288 pp, 210 x 148 mm, soft cover, 500+ colour photographs & illustrations EXPECTED AVAILABILITY JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 PRE-ORDER NOW FOR LIMITED PERIOD 15% DISCOUNTReviews“This book fills a long-standing void. There is no other book that covers more than 50 UK fossil hunting localities in such detail. ... The...

Dippy the famous Diplodocus dinosaur that has been on display at the Natural History Museum, London since 1905 will shortly be on the move and one of the stops will be Rochdale, where Siri Scientific Press is based. David Penney (black t-shirt) with Dippy at the NHM, London (photo by Dean Lomax) Indeed, the founder of Siri Scientific Press, Dr David Penney was contacted by Rochdale Council during the early stages of the bid preparation and asked to provide assistance with his palaeontological expertise, so we are very happy to have been a part of this successful bid and look...

These are exciting times for British palaeontology, with new important discoveries being documented in the scientific literature on a reasonably frequent basis. Some recent examples that spring to mind include the new Welsh theropod dinosaur Dracoraptor hanigani, the new ichthyosaur species Eileanchelys waldmani from the Isle of Skye, Scotland and most recently the description of two new species of Ichthyosaurus, by Dean Lomax and Judy Massare, in a paper just published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology. Dean is well known as the co-presenter of the TV documentary Dinosaur Britain and also as co-author of our highly acclaimed book: Dinosaurs of...