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Faridah Laffan explains how the illustrations of William Buckland's Kirkdale Cave discoveries were transformed from brushstrokes to engraved plates.

In a Journal of the Royal Society Interface paper, artificial intelligence methods are used to analyse fossil tracks. The work sheds light on why this approach outperforms conventional methods.

Virginia Mills finds out about the life and work of palaeontologist Dorothea Bate, and the perseverance required to unearth the fossil remains of pygmy elephants.

Back in August, Biology Letters published an open access paper on the teeth of archaic baleen whales. The study was picked up in the media and was featured in The Guardian and Newsweek, among others.

Biology Letters has just published its latest Special Feature on ‘Putting fossils in trees: combining morphology, time, and molecules to estimate phylogenies and divergence times’.

Uta Frith continues the story of geologist and fossil illustrator Mary Buckland, née Morland, including her wonderful drawings of hyena jaws.

Uta Frith looks at the life of Mary Buckland, née Morland, fossil collector, geologist and artist.

Keith Moore pays a visit to Dorset, and discovers the links between fossil collector Mary Anning and Royal Society Fellows William Conybeare and Henry de la Beche.