I’ve been enjoying a journey to a land that time forgot

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

ANCIENT HORNS Woolly rhinos prepare to do battle ...

When I was a child in the 1950s, I often visited by grandparents, and played with the neighbours’ children, all older than me. They passed down to me things that I still treasure. Richard gave me his

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