In the early 1800s Mary Anning engaged in a "gentlemanly pursuit" on the Jurassic Coast — fossil hunting. Two centuries on, she's finally being recognised as one of the greatest palaeontologists ...

Her name was Mary Anning, and she was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis in England. As a child she could be found collecting seashells and fossils with her father, who sold them to make extra money.

Their mother sold this specimen to a squire named Henry Henley for the healthy sum of £23 and it now resides in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London.

Mary Anning was a self-taught fossil hunter ... she sold it to a rich collector for £23 ... An often-repeated myth about Anning is that she inspired the tongue-twister "she sells seashells by ...

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Though he probably never met Anning in person, the author of A Christmas Carol wrote a moving essay about her 18 years after she died. "Mary Anning, the Fossil Finder" ran in the February 1865 ...

Mary Anning has been part of paleontology’s history since its very beginning. Yet this inspiring character’s childhood remains largely unfamiliar to the public. A self-taught English fossil ...

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