Rutland County Council is set to discuss proposals to turn the Rutland County Museum into a cultural and civic centre. Design work will begin if it is given the go-ahead and the authority hopes it ...

The museum said the area will house the fossilised remains of an ichthyosaur, which was discovered during excavations of Caldecotte Lake. Bill Griffiths, the museum's director, said: "At a time ...

An ichthyosaur first discovered in the 1970s but then dismissed and consigned to museum storerooms across the country has been re-examined and found to be a new species. Now a detailed study led by ...

The truth of this has been made apparent, not only by the impression of the soft parts in some of the ichthyosaurs from ... History branch of the British Museum, and is believed to be the first ...

Skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus platydon, the first ever discovered. Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of the neck a year later. Our collection ...

Many early ichthyosaur examples were found by Victorian palaeontologist, Mary Anning, along the coast at Lyme Regis, Dorset. It is one of the most common Early Jurassic fossil reptiles in the UK. The ...

A museum has announced it will be closed following a fire. Milton Keynes Museum in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, shared a post on social media saying it would be closed for the day and would share ...

Mary was the first person to find a whole Ichthyosaurus skeleton. You can see this at the Natural History Museum in London. Mary found many more ancient creatures in her life, including a long ...

Lyme Regis Museum has organised a variety of events for families and visitors, including rock-pooling walks, fossil polishing, printmaking, and a guided history walk.