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

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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

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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