The Hindu·3 min read·easy
Mary Anning: the princess of Palaeontology
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P.S. Niranjana
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Mary Anning was a pioneering 19th-century paleontologist whose significant fossil discoveries in Lyme Regis were often overlooked due to gender bias. Despite her lack of formal recognition during her lifetime, she is now celebrated for her foundational contributions to the field.
Mary Anning was born in a little town in South West England in the 18th Century. Her father Richard Anning was a carpenter. When Mary was about a year old, she survived a major lightning strike that killed the woman who was carrying her. This ‘miraculous escape’ soon made her famous in her little town.
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