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It is that time again ... the Yorkshire Fossil Festival will be witnessing its third incarnation this weekend. Last year we had a wonderful time at this event. It was great fun for all the family and well worth a visit. Remember also that we currently have a 10% discount off the RRP of our title: So you want to be a palaeontologist - practical advice for fossil enthusiasts of all ages by David Penney, but the discount code (Deposits2016) expires on Saturday! Click here to go to the product page. Some photos of last year's festival follow: More information...

We are pleased to announce that a very nice review of our title: So you want to be a palaeontologist? Practical advice for fossil enthusiasts of all ages by David Penney has just been published in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine. (Deposits Magazine 2016, snippets): In these times, when the classic discipline of palaeontology is diminishing, there is a demanding need to inspire the next generation of palaeontologists - and perhaps also to make this field of scientific research more approachable. ... this recent volume on the world of palaeontologists, by the widely acclaimed researcher and palaeontologist, Dr David...

If you are interested in the story of how bugs and slugs crawled out of the slime to look for more slime and make more bugs and slugs ... then check out this great video by Kenneth (Chris) Gass, author of our title Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill.     The video presentation is based on his recent book (click the cover below to go to the product page where you can see more information about this title or order a copy) ReviewsNewsletter of the Palaeontological Association (2016, number 91, pages...

We are very pleased to announce the best presentation winners at the recent International Conference of Arachnology 2016, held in Colorado, USA, each of whom received a copy of our volume: Spider Research in the 21st Century - trends and perspectives.The were as follows:MORPHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY & SILK SUB GROUP (21 COMPETITORS)Oral presentation: 1st prize: LENKA SENTENSKA Title: Are males really so insensitive? Palp morphology of a spider Philodromus cespitum reveals innervationSYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY SUB GROUP (36 COMPETITORS)Poster presentation:1st prize: SASHA BISHOP Title: Biogeography of two Caribbean ochyroceratid genera: Theotima and Ochyrocera2nd prize: LAURA MARCELA SEGURA-HERNANDEZ Title: Expanding far from...

Fossil jellyfish are exceptionally rare, particularly where they are preserved in mass stranding event settings and it is not hard to imagine why. Who would ever expect such soft-bodied organisms to leave identifiable traces of their existence in the fossil record? Stranded jellyfish on the tidal flats of the Gwendraeth estuary at Carmarthen Bay, Wales (July 2016) Two of our titles consider these remarkable fossils and the following accounts are taken (in slightly abbreviated form, including references removed for brevity) from those books (click the covers to go to the product page to find out more information about the title...