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Paper dragons

history of science
Katherine Marshall
12 July 2021
4 mins

Katherine Marshall is impressed by the work of female paleoartists, including Ethel Seeley and sisters Gertrude and Alice Woodward.

Early man cave

history of science
Jon Bushell
31 May 2021
6 mins

Jon Bushell tells the story of the significant excavations in Kent's Cavern, Torquay, carried out by William Pengelly FRS.

Digging for Dorothea

history of science
Virginia Mills
12 November 2020
7 mins

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.

Deep time in rhyme

history of science
Keith Moore
18 May 2020
5 mins

Keith Moore finds pteranodons and some truly prehistoric poetry while cataloguing the Royal Society's exhibition programmes.

Shalene Singh-Shepherd
06 February 2019
4 mins

Proceedings B recently published a paper that looked at agnostid (extinct arthropods) ecology and evolution.

Surayya Johar
06 June 2017
2 mins

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’.

Professor Uta Frith FRS
11 February 2011
3 mins

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

Professor Uta Frith FRS
07 February 2011
2 mins

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

Blue lias

history of science
Keith Moore
03 November 2010
2 mins

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.