Dinosaur Isle

18/11/2025

Today's site meeting took us up ladders where we looked at the models below us, plus an unusual view of the 'nose'. We also saw the gallery from a duct in the 3rd floor! Work is progressing well

12/11/2025

This Saturday is Newport day of Christmas and Alex will be joining our colleagues at the Museum of Island History to show off our collection and identify any of your finds.

Entry is free, the museum will be open 10am-4pm.

We hope to see you there.

05/11/2025

Yesterday we got to see thing from a new angle! Firstly from the scaffolding at the edge of the roof. It was windy!. Secondly looking down on the pterosaur that hangs from the ceiling in gallery 2.

31/10/2025

Just a few days left to apply to become the next General Manager and Curator of the museum!

29/10/2025

The little things often tell the biggest story. These microvertebrate remains are part of our work processing the fossils found along side our dinosaurs. They show us the fish, sharks, lizards, mammals, and a whole host of other small creatures that lived amongst the dinosaurs, and couldn’t be found without painstaking work processing the grams of fossils found in tens of kilos of rock.

28/10/2025

We had a great time at the Museum of Island History today. Come and join us on Thursday for more half term fun from 10am

28/10/2025

This is just part of a tooth, it’s so big you would be forgiven for thinking it’s from a dinosaur, but actually it belonged to an early mammal called an entelodont.

Nicknamed ‘hell pigs’ due to their build and size, the entelodonts had massively built jaws with large teeth, suited for crushing the tough plants that replaced softer, herbaceous and fruiting plants, as the earth cooled 32 million years ago.

27/10/2025

This tooth comes from Cretolamna, an Upper Cretaceous shark. The family it belongs to, the otodontidae, are some of the largest sharks to have lived, whilst now extinct, they would have been apex predators of the Cretaceous seas.

20/10/2025

These beautiful calcite crystals were spotted on our recent walk at Alum Bay. The flowstone growths formed in landslides, as ground waters percolated through limestones, dissolving and reprecipitating the minerals as these fantastic growths.

19/10/2025

Join our colleagues at Fort Victoria this half term!

🦀🌊 Half term adventures at Fort Victoria! 🦖🐚

Looking for something wildly fun this autumn? 🍂
Come rock pooling and fossil hunting with our awesome ranger at Fort Victoria! 🧢🔍

🦕 Discover ancient fossils like turtles, crocodiles, sharks & fish...
🦀 Spot sea creatures like crabs, anemones, shells & more!

📅 Session Dates:

Mon 20 Oct @ 2:30pm
Tue 21 Oct @ 2:20pm
Wed 29 Oct @ 10:30am
Thu 30 Oct @ 11:00am
Fri 31 Oct @ 11:00am

📍 Meet outside the ranger’s office
⏱️ Sessions last 1–1.5 hours
💷 £3 per person / £10 per family (cash only)
🚫 No booking needed – just turn up (if space allows!)

Perfect for curious kids and adventurous grown-ups alike! 🧒👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Who's ready to explore? 🏖️🕵️‍♂️