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Saturday, 6 September 2025

Total lunar eclipse to be visible from Asia, Africa, Australasia, and Eastern Europe.

A total Lunar Eclipse will occur on Sunday 7 September 2025, starting at 4.27 pm GMT. It will be visible across the entirety of Australia, I...

Friday, 5 September 2025

Over a thousand people feared dead following landslide in the Darfur Region of Sudan.

Over a thousand people are feared to have died following a landslide which hit the village of Tarseen in the Mara Mountains in the Dafur Reg...

Monday, 1 September 2025

More than 800 dead following Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

The United States Geological Survey recorded a Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake at a depth of 8 km, roughly 27 km to the northeast of the city of J...

Friday, 29 August 2025

Istiorachis macarthurae: A new species of Iguanodontian Dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight.

The Iguanodontians were a highly successful group of Ornithischian Dinosaurs, which included groups such as the Dryosaurids, Iguanodonts, an...

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Controversial South African conservationist and Rhino farmer charged with multiple offences related to Rhino-horn smuggling.

The controversial conservationist and Rhino farmer John Hume has been charged with multiple offences relating to the illegal export of Rhino...

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: I was interested in fossils from an early age, spending much of my childhood collecting on the coasts of England. Having left school in the 1980s with little opportunity to go on to higher education, I worked for the family business, and travelled more widely in Europe and North Africa, before eventually emigrating to The Gambia to work in tourism in 1990. While working in West Africa I was recruited by a mineral exploration company, which gave me the opportunity to travel much more widely, as well as the confidence to go to university when I returned to the UK. I studied palaeobiology at the University of Portsmouth, geosciences at the Open University, and ecology at Christchurch University, before settling into a career in environmental chemistry. I have worked in commercial labs assessing water and soil quality, at schools and colleges, as well as the universities of Nottingham and Warwick, and am currently employed at the University of Northampton. I am still an enthusiastic naturalist and fossil enthusiast in my own time, and regularly visit sites of interest around the UK and beyond, and write pop-science articles for a range of publications.

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