Today the Natural History Museum in London showcases several of Mary Anning's spectacular finds, including her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Much like they did two centuries ago, her fossils ...

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 ...

Skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus platydon, the first ever discovered. Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of the neck a year later. Our collection ...

Ichthyosaurus was a marine reptile that dominated ... Pioneering figures like the amazing Mary Anning, a fossil collector and paleontologist from Victorian England, played a crucial role in ...

The original fossil was discovered in Lyme Regis by Dorset palaeontologist Mary Anning, external around ... a metre long and staring at me was this ichthyosaur. Quickly took a few measurements ...

Known now as the mother of paleontology, Mary Anning's work was largely overlooked. But her research helped paleontologist Dean R. Lomax make groundbreaking discoveries about the ichthyosaur.