📜 The History of Mary Anning and Birth of Paleontology
"She sells seashells by the seashore." Many have heard this old English rhyme, but few know the true story of the woman who inspired it. Her name was Mary Anning, and she did much more than sell seashells: she discovered some of the very first dinosaur fossils and laid the groundwork for the brand-new field of paleontology. But she never got credit for her work.

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