Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector. Her lifetime was a constellation of firsts. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, in the southwest English county of Dorset.

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient creatures, forgotten about by the world, hidden in rocks under our feet. My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years ...

The collection also contains other important marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias of Dorset, in the UK, including those of Thomas Hawkins and the Earl of Enniskillen, who both purchased ...

the original clay model of a new sculpture honouring Mary Anning, a pioneering palaeontologist whose discoveries of ...

Growing up on England’s rocky southern coast, Anning first ... and occasional fossil hunter who sold them as curiosities to tourists. When he died in 1810, the family continued the trade to eke out a ...

The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning, an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was ...

Mary Anning was a 19th-century working-class woman from Dorset with no formal education. She became one of the most celebrated fossil collectors in history. National Treasure: The History of the ...

The University of Southampton's Hidden in Stone, which features a cast of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning's Plesiosaurus, can be visited at the city's God's House Tower for eight weeks.