Tanystropheus

Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

FROZEN PLANET

One of the longest dinosaur paths has been discovered in an unlikely location. ‘Jurassic trackways’ are rare in the UK, yet in a quarry in Oxfordshire, scientists have revealed a dinosaur ‘superhighwa

ANCIENT HORNS Woolly rhinos prepare to do battle ...

Last week, the fossilised bones of a stegosaurus and an adult and juvenile allosaurus were seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act, alongside nine luxury flats in London and a collection of Chinese art