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.

My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so too was I. As a child I walked the seafront with my father and brother to find what we then called curiosities.

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset's coastline. Fossil collector Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the early 1800s. She is remembered for making ...

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 ...

From March 28, the Market Hall Museum will host the Mary Anning Maquette, the original clay model of a new sculpture ...