Enter the doors of Delaware Museum of Natural History and you are surrounded by towering skeletons of prehistoric beasts, a wall of eggs from around the world and even a giant squid overhead. Take a ...

Ventral view of Mucrospirifer, a fossil brachiopod, showing the characteristically wing-like shell. This Devonian specimen from Ohio is 3.5cm wide. Brachiopod hard parts have excellent preservation ...

AN extraordinary collection of sea shells from around the world, gathered together by an 18th century Cumbrian woman who never left the country, is to go on public display for the first time in more ...

The collection, containing more than 200 specimens including an extinct species, is to go on public display for the first time in more than 100 years. Shells from Captain Cook’s third voyage, which ...