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6 days ago · Mary Anning, born in England in 1799, made an astounding discovery at age 12 when she unearthed the first full skeleton of a giant ichthyosaur in the cliffs above her home in Lyme Regis.
5 days ago · Mary Anning (Little People, Big Dreams) When Mary Anning was little, her family was very poor. She used to help her dad to comb for shells and bones up high on dangerous cliffs. After receiving a book as a gift from a kind benefactor, Mary learned all about fossils.
3 days ago · In 1811, in Lyme Regis, along the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, the first complete ichthyosaur skull was found by Joseph Anning, the brother of Mary Anning, who in 1812 while still a young girl, secured the torso of the same specimen.
5 days ago · Join our expert guides to go fossil hunting on Lyme’s famous East beach and Black Ven. Learn all about the remarkable fossil hunter Mary Anning, the geology of the Jurassic Coast and discover your own fossils to take home. Walks last between 2.5-3hrs.
2 days ago · Mary Anning werd op 21 mei 1799 geboren in Lyme Regis, een plaatsje in het zuidwesten van Engeland. Haar vader, Richard Anning, was timmerman en meubelmaker, maar verzamelde en verkocht naast zijn alledaagse werk ook fossielen uit de kliffen aan de kust. Deze kustlijn, die loopt van Dorset tot Oost ...
3 days ago · Fossil, remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in Earth’s crust. The complex of data recorded in fossils worldwide—known as the fossil record—is the primary source of information about the history of life on Earth.
3 days ago · On the first Wednesday of each month, for York's Hidden History, I lead a Guilded Tour of medieval York. The walk takes an hour, and we start and finish outside York Guildhall, but if there aren't any events on, we might sneak a peek inside. The front of York Guildhall. As a geologist, one of the things I particularly like about the Guildhall is that there are many different ancient seafloors ...
