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He died when Mary was 10. When Mary was 12, her brother Joseph dug up the skull of a ichthyosaurus (which means ‘fish lizard’). The skull was more than a metre long.
Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils.
Around 1811, when Mary was 12, Joseph found a strange-looking fossilised skull. Mary then searched for and painstakingly dug the outline of its 5.2-metre-long skeleton. By the time she was done, several months later, everyone in town knew she had discovered what must have been a monster.
Mar 29, 2021 · It took months for Mary to carefully uncover a skeleton of the first Ichthyosaurus described as such in London. She was 12 years old.
- Cathy Newman
Oct 16, 2020 · In 1811, at the age of just 12, Mary discovered a 5.2m (17ft) skeleton, now known to be an ichthyosaur. Twelve years later, she found the first complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile...
Mary Anning was born on 21 May 1799. She lived in the English seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. Mary would spend her time searching the coast looking for what she called ‘curiosities’....
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Mary Anning’s most significant discoveries included the first complete plesiosaur skeleton and the Ichthyosaurus or ‘fish lizard’, a marine reptile that lived between 250 and 90 million years ago. Anning also unearthed a partial skeleton of a pterosaur, the first pterosaur skeleton found outside Germany.
