Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
She never visited the county during her lifetime but finally, on #FossilFriday July 14th 2023, Mary Anning will arrive in Yorkshire, as the maquette of her wonderful Lyme Regis statue comes to the Yorkshire Museum for a two-month stay. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that Mary is coming to York. She’d have loved fossiling on the Yorkshire...
What did you miss? Don’t panic! There’s plenty more to come! If you missed – or perhaps you’re just missing – the 2023 Yorkshire Fossil Festival in Whitby, what can you do to bring the fossil-feelgood-factor back before our next festival? Here are some ideas: Come back to Whitby Museum! Celebrating its bicentenary this year, the wonderful Whitby Museum is...
Last month, I led a #FossilFriday event at Redcar Palace, taking people out onto the beach to hunt for fossils in the shingle, and bringing the specimens back to the Palace to discuss, describe, and draw. It was a fantastic day, and we’re going to do it again soon. I am now telling anyone who’ll listen that Redcar is a...
Wild winter walks on the north-east coast of England? Absolutely! I parked at the western end of Redcar beach. Majuba, it was windy! Coatham’s sand dunes were frantically migrating south. The offshore wind turbines looked certain to take off. Those small-dog-walkers who’d foolishly unleashed their hounds watched them saltate off to Saltburn. The sun was shining, though, and perhaps all...
On Sunday March 13th 2022, as part of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and Yorkshire Geological Society symposium ‘Lost Beasts of the North’, supported by the Curry Fund of the Geologists’ Association, and celebrating the bicentenary of the discovery of Kirkdale Cave, I took to the lectern in St Gregory’s Minster and pretended to be William Buckland: “Account of an assemblage...
