With the precious fossils laid out carefully on a sun-hat held in my hands, I took a confident stride from one boulder …
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The man in the Taganrog Park spun around and said something at us. The only word I made out was ‘anglesky’  (‘English’)- …
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A small claim to fame….Last year I found some little dinosaur footprints in China, and the resulting paper has just been published …
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You’ll see the chick with red and green silk bloomers at Tanais… The River Don is one of Europe’s big ones. Even …
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Travelling in Russia last year I got a chance to see some of it’s famous prehistoric ‘Porthole Dolmens’.  Now there is a …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Deciduous Conifers in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay
As you pull up in the car park above the fossil forest at Curio Bay (Pole 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009), there is …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
How Tall were the trees in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?
At Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …
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I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …
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Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me. Â When I left my …
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The New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …