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Fossil hunter Mary Anning was born #OnThisDay in 1799.
This palaeontological pioneer spent much of her life searching for the remains of fossilised marine reptiles along the Dorset coast. Her finds and observations played an important part in many scientific discoveries, including the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified and the identification of coprolites.
Still, Anning struggled to find acceptance in the scientific community of 19th-century Britain, which was mostly made up of Anglican gentleman, and consequently struggled financially for much of her relatively short life.
Today, several of Anning's discoveries are represented in the Museum's Marine Fossil Reptiles gallery, and Museum learning activities aim to highlight her story.
http://bit.ly/NHM-Marine-Fossil-Reptile
Fossil hunter Mary Anning was born #OnThisDay in 1799.
This palaeontological pioneer spent much of her life searching for the remains of fossilised marine reptiles along the Dorset coast. Her finds and observations played an important part in many scientific discoveries, including the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified and the identification of coprolites.
Still, Anning struggled to find acceptance in the scientific community of 19th-century Britain, which was mostly made up of Anglican gentleman, and consequently struggled financially for much of her relatively short life.
Today, several of Anning's discoveries are represented in the Museum's Marine Fossil Reptiles gallery, and Museum learning activities aim to highlight her story.
http://bit.ly/NHM-Marine-Fossil-Reptile
http://bit.ly/NHM-Marine-Fossil-Reptile
Mary Anning. Jane Austen 的小說描述過的地方：英國Lyme Regis 地方及小說家 John Fowles的地方簡史和其二百多年 Belmont House
Mary Anning was born #onthisday in 1799, one of the most famous fossil finders of her day. Her family had earned a living for years by gathering fossils on the shore at Lyme Regis in Dorset to sell to collectors, leading to the well-known rhyme: ‘She sells sea shells by the sea shore’. Mary learned about the fossils from her parents. Despite the lack of a formal education, she became an expert on the fossils she found, and the most eminent geologists of the day often sought her advice. In the 1820s she became the first person in Britain to find complete specimens of an ichthyosaur, a plesiosaur and a pterodactyl.
The specimens that Anning collected can still be found in museums throughout Britain. This large skull is part of the skull and lower jaw of an ichthyosaur (Ichthyosaurus platyodon). The British Museum purchased this shortly after Anning discovered it. The Museum’s natural history collections moved to South Kensington in the 1880s and this is now on loan from the Natural History Museum, London, on display in our Enlightenment Gallery.
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