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Teesside's very own Earth expert, Dr Brooke Johnson, explains why Redcar Rocks! In this 2-minute video, Brooke reveals the fossil secrets of the town's famous coastline.

Find out more about what it’s like to study the world around us. Would you like to be a geologist, a palaeontologist or perhaps even a Climate Scientist? Find out more in this video by Dr Amy Edgington, GeoBus, UCL. Suitable for KS2 and KS3.

Part of Yorkshire Fossil Festival 2021. Few animals are better symbols of the Ice Age than the woolly mammoth. As iconic as the woolly mammoth has become, it is just one character in a diverse cast of huge animals that together tell the story of the British ‘megafauna’. As the ice sheets came and went, so too did the animals and plants. In this talk, we will travel from the banks of the River T...

Part of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival. The William Smith Lecture. It is likely that Planet Earth faces an impending extinction crisis if humans can’t curb their excesses. Some say the modern extinction has already begun, because species are disappearing at an alarming rate. But how can we, as the supposed agents of this environmental catastrophe, know what will happen? Hear from Professor Dave ...

Part of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival 2021. The Living Seas Lecture with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Hear from Andrew Jayes, Native Oyster and Seagrass Restoration Officer for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for a conversation on the ancient and recent history of two important species, the implications of their decline for us, and their conservation.

Part of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival 2021. It’s often said we live in the age of mammals, which began with the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But as Scottish palaeontologist Dr Elsa Panciroli reveals in her recent acclaimed book, Beasts Before Us, this is merely the last sentence at the end of a much longer evolutionary tale. In this talk, she’ll reveal the story of...

Part of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival 2021. The Sue and Pete Rawson Lecture How do we help people of all backgrounds engage with the extraordinary story of our planet? Over the past 20 years, Earth Scientist and presenter Dr Anjana Khatwa has travelled the world in search of remarkable rocks that reveal the deep history of our Earth. She will reveal some of the places she loves and the techniqu...

Crafting the Cretaceous - a video by iDOLRiCH Theatre Rotto for the 2021 Yorkshire Fossil Festival, showing how to make your own dinosaur puppets.

An animated puppet show made by iDOLRiCH Theatre Rotto for the Yorkshire Fossil Festival, showing flora and fauna of the Cretaceous period.