Mary Anning was a pioneering paleontologist two centuries ago, at a time when a number of notable women were pursuing the science of finding fossils. Yet it was also an era when, as women, they could not be rewarded with the highest professional
Mary Anning's influential finds started from an earlier age – when aged just twelve years-old, she discovered a skull staring out from a cliff near the family home. With help from her 15 year-old brother, Mary Anning finished painstakingly uncovering
Mary Anning was a pioneering paleontologist two centuries ago, at a time when a number of notable women were pursuing the science of finding fossils. Yet it was also an era when, as women, they could not be rewarded with the highest professional
Mary Anning: Google doodle celebrates the missing woman of geology. Is this the only existing photograph of renowned palaeontologist and geologist Mary Anning? Suzanne Pilaar Birch celebrates thewoman who helped make geology a science, 215 today
On May 21, Google commemorated the 215th birthday of Mary Anning, a British fossil collector. Internet users who visited Google's homepage were shown a Doodle that featured Anning looking for fossils, with the bones of the animals making up the word