Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector. Her lifetime was a constellation of firsts. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, in the southwest English county of Dorset.

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient creatures, forgotten about by the world, hidden in rocks under our feet. My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years ...

In this activity, your class will think like a palaeontologist and compare their own bodies to one of Mary Anning’s real fossil finds. This simple scientific activity is a good complement to learning ...

Growing up on England’s rocky southern coast, Anning first learned the skills of finding and cleaning up fossils from her father ... the trade to eke out a meager income. A year later, Mary’s brother ...

A free exhibition that tells the story of the south of England, from Jurassic dinosaurs through to early humans, has opened.

The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning, an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was ...

Explore more of Lyme Regis by spending a day at each of its four distinct beaches. Relax at Front Beach, just by the Cobb harbour, or head to Monmouth Beach, a mile-long pebbled stretch next to the ...

The University of Southampton's Hidden in Stone, which features a cast of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning's Plesiosaurus, can be visited at the city's God's House Tower for eight weeks.