A seafront statue of palaeontologist Mary Anning has been unveiled in her hometown of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of ...

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Mary Goodwin, curator of Lyme Regis Museum which is built on the site of Anning's birthplace, said: "You were nothing in those days until you had your name published on a scientific paper." ...

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, in the southwest English county of Dorset. Lyme Regis is now part of what is now called the Jurassic Coast, and discoveries are still being made to this day ...

Fossil found by 14-year-old Mary Anning in Lyme Regis put on ... was found in 1813 on the beach in Lyme Regis, where Mary grew up. The skull has been in the museum’s collection since 1845 but ...

The uber-cool Dorset seaside beach town of Lyme Regis is now a Hollywood A lister – thanks to Kate Winslet’s portrayal of 19th-century fossil hunter and local legend Mary Anning in new film ...

The Lyme Regis museum itself sits on the site of Mary’s house and shop, which deteriorated years ago. Her gravestone and a commemorative window can be found in St. Michael’s Parish Church .

Mary Anning was renowned as a ‘geological lioness’, with her discoveries including the first complete plesiosaur fossil. Now, centuries later, her town of Lyme Regis is putting up a long ...

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in the seaside resort town of Lyme Regis, England. The town, which billed itself as a budget alternative to resorts such as Bath, had one other feature going for it ...

But you may not know that this rhyme, taken from a 1908 Terry Sullivan song, was actually inspired by Mary Anning, the woman who collected fossils in Lyme Regis in England in the 19th century.

In the new film Ammonite, the brilliant self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) finds herself unexpectedly consumed by a love affair with the sullen wife of a geologist. It’s 1840s ...

It is 200 years since a young girl made a landmark discovery in Dorset. In 1811, Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning - aged just 12 - and her older brother Joseph unearthed the 2m (6.5ft) long ...