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Mary Anning, the girl who discovered dinosaurs never seen before. Mary Anning was born in May 21, 1799, into a poor family, in Lyme Regis, a small town on the so-called Jurassic Coast of southern England, where cliffs hold fossilized evidence of life on Earth millions of years ago.. She died in March 9, 1847. Parents: Richard Anning, Mary Moore. Sibling: Joseph
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Mary Anning was born in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, in 1799. Although her parents had ten children, only Mary and her brother Joseph lived to adulthood. It's said Mary had a lucky escape when she was a baby. The lady holding her was struck by lightning.
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My family were very poor, which meant she didn't get to attend school much.
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Even as a child, just 12 years old, Mary Anning stumbled across her first Jurassic fossil. She was studying the remains of what at first appeared to be a crocodile skull, when he realized that this was not a normal animal.
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As a child, she loved to walk along the beach and cliffs with her father. She was a cabinetmaker, but his passion was searching for fossils. She taught Mary everything he knew about them. They sold the ones they found to tourists at a stall in front of their house.
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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.
