Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector. Her lifetime was a constellation ... Lyme Regis is now part of what is now called the Jurassic Coast, and discoveries are still being ...

Paleontologist Mary Anning discovered the ichthyosaur fossil in 1818, two decades before the word dinosaur was even part of our lexicon. The ancient marine reptiles got the name ichthyosaur ...

I didn’t get the credit for my discoveries. Over the years, men and women slowly became more equal, and I became celebrated as one of the greatest fossil hunters that ever lived. Mary Anning was ...

Fossils became the family business – and Mary was the sharpest ... even credited for her discoveries. Careful work by historians tracking down the many letters between Anning and prominent ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning found some of the first known fossils of ancient animals such ... In 1823, Anning discovered the first complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, another reptile that replaced ...

THE countdown is on for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, now firmly established as the UK’s largest palaeontological event. Over the weekend of June 14 and 15, leading palaeontologists, experts, ...

The most complete dinosaur discovered in Britain in the ... finding dinosaur bones - he really was a modern-day Mary Anning. "He collected fossils daily in all weathers and donated them to museums.

The 2m-long (6ft 5in) fossil was one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered. The festival also includes the premiere of a new film about pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning.

the original clay model of a new sculpture honouring Mary Anning, a pioneering palaeontologist whose discoveries of ...

The three-foot-long “fish lizard” was the first complete fossil of the animal ever collected, and it was most likely discovered by Mary Anning, a trailblazing English paleontologist.

One of her most important discoveries was coprolites ... As a child, Mary Anning could be found collecting seashells and fossils with her father, who sold them to make extra money - and is ...