Honorary lecturer at The University of Manchester Dr David Penney and researcher James E. Jepson at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany are both fellows for the Royal Entomological Society and have studied insect preservation in rock and amber.

A 410 million-year-old arachnid has been brought into the 21st century in a new University of Manchester video.

The skeleton of a rare three-storey-high dinosaur that walked the Earth more than 70million years ago is making its UK debut at Manchester University today – and University of Manchester scientists are getting their teeth into it.