Today is Mary Anning’s 223rd birthday! She was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collecto
Today is Mary Anning’s 223rd birthday! She was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector. Her findings include ichthyosaurs, the very first plesiosaur and the first pterosaur located out of Germany. She contributed beyond measure to changing how we understand the history of our planet. Thanks to the efforts by the Mary Anning Rocks campaign a statue or her has finally been erected at the cliffs in Lyme Regis, were she used to hunt for fossils. -- source link