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For nearly 20 years in the late 19th century a ‘mermaid’ was
The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo
ST COLUMBA was travelling across Scotland when, in ...
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This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra
What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature
