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, ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning found some of the first known fossils ... Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

This BBC documentary featured the discovery of a brand new species of ichthyosaur ... Sir David also backed the campaign for a statue of Mary Anning in the town. In a letter to statue campaigner Evie ...

Among them was Mary Anning, who despite making some of the most important fossil discoveries of the century, faced financial struggles and was unable to join the Geological Society of London due ...

Mary Anning, one of the heroes of the book ... came to rule a part of the prehistoric world. Older Origin: The discovery of a Brazilian fossil may push back the emergence of the reptiles that ...

The tongue twister "She sells seashells by the seashore" is often connected to Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil collector and paleontologist from Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. Born in 1799 ...

The discovery of prehistoric fossils ... Both authors begin with Mary Anning, a self-taught fossil hunter who was the impoverished daughter of a cabinetmaker. One day in 1811, in a fossil-rich ...

Her name was Mary Anning, and she was born in 1799 in Lyme ... Of course, Mary didn't get credit for the discovery, but geologists did start to visit Lyme Regis, and she learned all she could ...

Despite his discovery being repeatedly rebuffed by ... Not all of the pioneers in the golden age of dinosaur fossils were so lucky. Mary Anning was a poor and uneducated young woman from a small ...

The discovery was made by fossil collector Nick Chase before ... Jeremy said: “Nick had a phenomenal nose for finding dinosaur bones — he really was a modern-day Mary Anning. He collected fossils ...

Lisa Meitner is one of the physicists who discovered nuclear fission, but she was robbed of the Nobel Prize for that discovery as ... to turn to the poem about Mary Anning, who like Marie Curie ...