Reading circle
Every month we pick one paper, book chapter or new discovery and pull it apart together — no degree required, just curiosity and good questions.
Est. 2016 · Independent & volunteer-run
We are people who never stopped loving dinosaurs.
Strata Society is a small, welcoming community for amateur paleontology fans — readers, sketchers, model-builders and museum wanderers who like to talk about deep time and the animals that filled it.
What we actually do
Sketch & model nights
Bring a pencil or a half-finished model. We share reference, argue about feathers, and help each other get the posture right.
Museum trips
We organise informal visits to collections and travelling exhibitions, then compare notes over coffee afterwards.
140+
members across three cities
72
reading-circle sessions since 2016
Free
to join, always volunteer-run
From the field notes
Why size estimates keep changing
We spent a session working through how a single new vertebra can rewrite a length estimate — and why "biggest ever" headlines age so badly.
Reading a bone bed
A visiting preparator walked us through what a jumble of scattered bones can tell you about a flood, a drought, or a very bad day.