Mary Anning Merch

Badass Mary Anning found fossils in all kinds of dangerous conditions but of course, being a woman, wasn't eligible to join the scientific institutions which benefited from her brilliance. She deserves her own fan club, and you can be part of it. Also available in black.

Badass Mary Anning found fossils in all kinds of dangerous conditions but of course, being a woman, wasn't eligible to join the scientific institutions which benefited from her brilliance. She deserves her own fan club, and you can be part of it. Also available in white.

Mary Anning was a paleontologist from Victorian England, her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was just twelve years old, the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany and fish fossils. Unfortunately, as a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions

English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.

"I don't want to go back to the life I had before you." The story of Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison is unearthed in Ammonite.

I drew this ammonite from a specimen that I bought in Lyme Regis, home of Mary Anning, fossil hunter.