History_of_Geology, 2 months ago German

March 9, 1847, Mary Anning dies #OTD aged just 47. Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus and the flying reptile Dimorphodon 🦴

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