Dorset and East Devon residents will soon have a unique chance to get up close and personal with a 190-million-year-old marine reptile.

Help clean up our world-class coastline by taking part in the Great Dorset Beach Clean on Sunday, 15 April.

Artist Abigail Reynolds will be working with a Micropaleontologist, Samantha Gibbs (NOC), and a Mathematician to highlight the amazing microscopic story of the rocks in and around Durlston Country Park, near Swanage that form part of the 185 million years of geological time along this World Heritage Site coastline. Image: light microscope image of a dinoflagellate (zooplankton) courtesy of I. Harding (NOC)

A big ‘thank you' to beach cleaning volunteers!
On Sunday 15 April, record numbers of volunteers took part in the biggest ever Great Dorset Beach Clean. In total, over 700 volunteers removed unsightly plastics and other debris from the shores of 22 beaches, stretching from Lyme Regis to Christchurch.