Mary Anning

(1799-1847)

When I was a little girl, I was going to be a paleontologist and dig for dinosaurs. I could name at least 20 dinos. Well, even though I never became a paleontologist, I'm still fascinated by fossils. So, when I was in London, I HAD to go to their Natural History museum. That's where I found out about Mary Anning, the "fossil lady".
	In books and websites, I see it written that Mary Anning was a "woman in a man's world". She also had the "bad taste" to be "a woman of low birth". Yet, she made quite a mark for herself. She was an excellent fossil hunter, an expert in her field, and she worked for money.
She discovered the first Plesiosaur, among other great fossil finds.
	Reading List *Crispin Tickell, Mary Anning of Lyme Regis,published by Lyme regis Philpot Museum . 1996 (reprinted 1998).*

Biographical	Science
Mary Anning	fossil marine reptiles
Mary Anning finder of fossils	a homepage devoted to plesiosaurs
	some pix of plesiosaur fossils

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