Lyme Regis has been a bucolic seaside resort for the English upperclass since the late 18th century. It was common for locals to supplement their incomes by selling small fossil curiosities obtained ...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A woman who, quite literally, changed history is the focus of a new exhibit in Fort Scott. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, England. She is credited as one of, if not the ...

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A pioneering palaeontologist and avid fossil collector, Mary Anning’s discoveries have contributed significantly to modern-day science. But until recently, she was relatively unknown. Mary Anning was ...

Today’s Google doodle celebrates the 215th birthday of Mary Anning, a 19th century fossil collector and paleontologist who, even as a poor working-class woman in a field dominated by wealthy ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England's Dorset Coast from the age of ten in 1809. Her fossil finds were sought out by the ...

A fragment of a letter written by palaeontologist Mary Anning in which she says she is "sick" of fossils has sold for more than £15,000 at auction. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century ...

When Victorian paleontologist Mary Anning walked along the limestone cliffs of southwest England 200 years ago, she probably never dreamed that future scientists would name a piece of Mars in her ...