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

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

ANCIENT HORNS Woolly rhinos prepare to do battle ...

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

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