Mary Anning has been part of paleontology’s history since its very beginning. Yet this inspiring character’s childhood ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning found some of the first known fossils of ancient animals such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pterosaurs, before the term “dinosaur” had been invented. Anning ...

Her name was Mary Anning, and she was born in 1799 in Lyme ... and the 12-year-old carefully excavated the first known specimen of an ichthyosaur; a fishlike creature that lived in the Jurassic ...

Today, Mary Anning is celebrated as the pioneer of palaeontology, and revered for her groundbreaking discoveries and indomitable spirit. The ichthyosaurus fossil she discovered is so well ...

A Mary Anning in the making ... the researchers revealed that the jawbones belong to a new species of giant ichthyosaur that would have been about the size of a blue whale. The team named the ...

They subsequently contacted Lomax, an ichthyosaur expert, and additional sections of the bone were unearthed. The role of Ruby Reynolds in the discovery has led to comparisons with Mary Anning ...

As part of my research on ichthyosaurs, I’ve examined practically every single ichthyosaur that Mary Anning found, or at least the ones we know of. It amazes me that even after 200 years her ...

An ancient fossil found by Mary Anning when she was just 14 years old is now on display in Bristol. The huge fossil skull - of a type of ichthyosaur called a Temnodontosaurus - was found in 1813 ...

A little over 200 years ago, this ichthyosaur was found in Lyme Regis, almost certainly by Mary Anning. It was described in 1819 & named ‘Proteosaurus’. Sadly, it was destroyed in London in ...

LONDON — The first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, believed to have been found by the fossil hunter Mary Anning, was thought to have been lost forever when German bombs rained down on London in World ...