Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector ... Scientists thought this was a crocodile. At the time most people assumed that unearthed, unrecognisable creatures had simply ...

Mary Anning was born on 21 May 1799 ... They thought it might be a crocodile, but what she had discovered was actually an ancient reptile called an ichthyosaur (which means ‘fish lizard’).

A planning application for a statue of fossil-hunter, Mary Anning and her dog has been submitted. The Mary Anning Rocks campaign, led by teenager Evie Swire, wants to place the statue on a path in ...

Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector ... Scientists thought this was a crocodile. At the time most people assumed that unearthed, unrecognisable creatures had simply ...