Jurassic World
Picture the coast of Southern England 180 million years in the middle of the Jurassic era and you would see tropical shallow seas teeming with life. Crustaceans, fish, marine reptiles and ammonites filled the waters. The clays, sandstone and limestone that form the wonderful cliffs of West Dorset were formed as sediment in these seas. How time has changed the landscape. The seas are no longer tropical and although still teeming with life, marine reptiles hunt no longer in the waters off the Dorset coast. Nowadays the coastline between Lyme Regis and Charmouth reveals the secrets of this long ago time. The remnants of the creatures that once swam in the warm oceans can be found strewn over the beaches, imprinted into the rocks and embedded into the cliffs. The ‘dink-dink’ of the fossil hammers against stone rings out across the shoreline as keen fossil hunters of all ages descend on the sands attempting to find that perfect specimen, enabling the lucky...