Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector ... Duria Antiquior - A More Ancient Dorset Her discoveries inspired famous geologist (and childhood friend) Henry De la Beche to ...

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 with my father and brother to find what we then called curiosities.

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 ...