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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 ...
Ichthyosaurus was a marine reptile that dominated ... Pioneering figures like the amazing Mary Anning, a fossil collector and ...
Imagine standing on a windswept English beach, the salty air stinging your face, while jagged cliffs loom overhead. Suddenly, you spot something half-buried in the shale—a glimpse of ancient bone, ...
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 ...
including a dolphin-like marine reptile called an ichthyosaur, a long necked reptile called a plesiosaur, a flying reptile and many other ancient sea creatures. Image caption, While Mary Anning ...
Mary was the first person to find a whole Ichthyosaurus skeleton ... My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so too was I. As a child I walked the seafront ...
This shows a difference in prey-preference in newborn ichthyosaurs." Many early ichthyosaur examples were found by Victorian palaeontologist, Mary Anning, along the coast at Lyme Regis, Dorset. It is ...
Britain is the birthplace of ichthyosaurs – their fossils have been unearthed here for over 200 years, with the first finds to be recognized by science dating back to Mary Anning and her discoveries ...
The University of Southampton's Hidden in Stone, which features a cast of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning's Plesiosaurus ... alongside casts of ichthyosaurs and Anning's plesiosaurus will ...