As a child in the early 1800s, Mary Anning began collecting fossils with her family in their English seaside hometown. Throughout her life she made many important finds, including early specimens of Plesiosaurus and Ichthyosaurus, and the flying Pterodactylus macronyx. (Painting: B.J. Donne, 1847)
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