mary anning

Mary Anning is a woman who was the first one to find a fossil

Mary was born in 1799. She grew up while Britain was at war with France. She was 16 in the year of the Battle of Waterloo (1815). She was alive when Victoria became Queen, in 1837. Mary Anning died in 1847.

Mary Anning was not trained as a scientist, but her finds changed science. She came from a poor family. She made only one trip away from home in her whole life. Famous scientists came to see her. They wanted to see the fossils she found.

this is a fossil the she found and the scientists used that in the british museum