July 16, 2024 Dinosaur and fossil hunts, Summer 2024 Join palaeontologist Fossiliam for some family-friendly fossil-finding fun in York and North Yorkshire this summer! Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching
March 30, 2024 Stegosaurs of Whitby Leading a family fossil hunt at Whitby, I walked my group onto East Scar, beneath Whitby Abbey. The rocks in the foreshore and lower part of the cliffs here are Early Jurassic marine shales. The dark grey layers, peppered with hard, pale lumps, belong to the Whitby Mudstone Formation. The hard pale lumps are limestone nodules (concretions) that grew around... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Research/Teaching
October 24, 2020 Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 5 After an interval of many months, I’ve been prompted to finally produce a fifth part of Chalking With Dinosaurs, featuring me making footprints in the sands of Scarborough’s South Bay, and then hunting dinosaur footprints in the rocks of the South Cliff: The video features as part of my live ‘Chalking With Dinosaurs’ talks at the Lyme Regis Virtual Fossil... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching
May 21, 2020 Rolling with dinosaurs After Chalking With Dinosaurs with Burnsy on BBC Radio Humberside this week, I intended my next post to be on the Megalosaurus trackways of Oxfordshire. However, my better half then showed me this video: We immediately found ourselves thinking: “That would be cool with dinosaur feet!” Then we thought “Actually, it would be cooler with correctly sized dinosaur feet that... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching
May 19, 2020 Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 4 I don’t even work on dinosaurs, and here I am, yet again, writing about the crunching great lizard monsters and their footprints. It’s all a very elaborate ruse to get you hooked on ichnology, such that I can then start making videos such as Crawling With Ragworms and Irrigating With Thalassinids. Hey ho, it’s all good fun, and here we... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Media/Outreach/Teaching
May 12, 2020 Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 3 On Saturday May 9th 2020, as promised, I chalked a load of dinosaur footprints onto my driveway. My video below explains what I did, and what a single footprint can tell us about the tracemaker. WARNING: this video features some low-quality singing. If you want to go chalking with dinosaurs, here’s my checklist: 1. Choose a footprint you want to... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Media/Outreach/Teaching
May 9, 2020 Chalking With Dinosaurs, Part 2 As GeoWeek 2020 starts on Saturday May 9th, so does Chalking With Dinosaurs. And since we can’t all go to the Dinosaur Coast this weekend and hunt fossilized footprints, let’s bring the dinosaurs to our streets, our driveways, and our houses. My video below gives an introduction to Chalking With Dinosaurs, and the science of ichnology. The Jurassic rocks of... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching
May 4, 2020 Chalking With Dinosaurs The Yorkshire Coast is one of the best places in the world to walk with dinosaurs. The Jurassic rocks exposed between Staithes and Scarborough have yielded huge numbers of fossil dinosaur footprints, and scientists from all over the world come to North Yorkshire to better understand how dinosaurs lived and behaved. In the absence of being able to go and... Categories #ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Media/Outreach/Teaching
