Self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning made amazing fossil discoveries along the Jurassic Coast. Today her legacy draws travelers to southwest England
Anning made detailed sketches of her finds, including this one of a plesiosaur.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
Scientists came and, with a whiff of patronizing amusement, consulted her. “She is a very clever, funny creature,” said an American geologist who met her. Not only did she find fossils, she sketched and studied them. Her work added proof that species can become extinct, helping pave the way for Darwin.
The Lyme Regis museum itself sits on the site of Mary’s house and shop, which deteriorated years ago. Her gravestone and a commemorative window can be found in“But the real monument is going down to the beach in summer and seeing how many kids are there hunting for fossils,” Keith Moore says. Moore, head librarian of the, the United Kingdom’s academy of sciences, travels down from London several times a year for a fossil-hunting break.
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