NEW products to celebrate the Dinosaur Coast are to be launched at next week’s Yorkshire Fossil Festival.

Three North Yorkshire companies - geological consultants and event organisers Hidden Horizons, publishers High Tide and educational designers Wooden Ark – will showcase a new pocket edition of popular book The Dinosaur Coast by High Tide’s Roger Osborne.

The book details the types of fossils that can be found on North Yorkshire’s Dinosaur Coast, spanning from Staithes, near Whitby, to the south of Scarborough.

Dinosaur fans and fossil hunters can also get their hands on a range of dinosaur posters by The Dinosaur Company, a joint venture by Hidden Horizons and Wooden Arc, and there will also be the chance to take part in adult geology sessions from October.

High Tide is run by Roger Osborne, a trained geologist and acclaimed author, and journalist Janis Bright; Hidden Horizons is headed by Will Watts, also a qualified geologist; and Wooden Ark is educational designers Tony and Georgina Richardson, who have worked for high profile clients including the Oxford University Press and the Imperial War Museum, for which they recently produced a children’s activity guide.

Roger Osborne says: “The Dinosaur Coast was first published 15 years ago, and has proved very popular – this new, pocket edition features updated content and new pictures.

“Visitors to the Fossil Festival will also be able to buy my other books on geology, including The Floating Egg and Rocks and Landscape of the North York Moors.”

The festival will take place at Scarborough’s Rotunda Museum from September 18 to 20, and the three businesses will share a marquee in the grounds.

The second Yorkshire Fossil Festival is again run by Scarborough Museums Trust in partnership with The Palaeontogical Association. For more information visit: http://www.scarboroughmuseumstrust.com/#!fossil-festival/csj0