It is with great sadness that I take this personal look back at my friendship with fellow plesiosaur palaeontologist Richard Forrest. I think I first met Richard when I started to attend talks at the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 2003. However, my strongest early memory of Richard is from March…
The Golden Trilobite is awarded annually by the Palaeontological Association to "high quality amateur and institutional websites that promote the charitable aims of the Association". I've no idea who nominated my website this year, but my thanks go to whoever raised it to the attention of the the PalAss Council, because it…
This Wordpress blog is the new official news page of 'The Plesiosaur Directory'. It will replace the former html news web page of my website. I think this system will be a much more amenable replacement with benefits for both myself (automated dating, no more FTP-ing etc.) and hopefully for my readers…
I am honoured and not a little surprised to see this very site appear in leading science journal 'Science'. Every issue of the journal contains a section called 'Netwatch', featuring a crop of recommended online resources - the "best of the Web in Science". To see what 'Science' had to say about…