Mary Anning was considered to be the first female paleontologist and the greatest fossil finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the first half of the nineteenth century. Her findings were key to the development paleontology as a scientific discipline in Britain. She was the first recognised by the Geological Society of London, and credited with the first discovery.
She was credited with the first discovery of a complete Plesiosaurus skeleton. Mary Anning was one of the earliest fossil hunters to identify these prehistoric fossils, and she shared her specimens and impressive knowledge about them with scientists at the time. What made Anning discoveries so important to the history of science, is that they provided evidence that forced scientists to imagine, like De la Beche, an ancient world different from our own, and so to begin to think of evolution and how it might occur. …show more content…
They provided evidence that was central to the development of new ideas about the history of the Earth. It encouraged more people than ever before to speculate about processes that could cause species that once populated Earth to disappear and be replaced by new species. Mary’s contribution had a major impact at a time when there was little to challenge the biblical interpretation of the story of creation and of the flood. Was the world created in 7 days? From fossilized feces, scientists learnt something on the diets of animals hundreds of millions of years
She was credited with the first discovery of a complete Plesiosaurus skeleton. Mary Anning was one of the earliest fossil hunters to identify these prehistoric fossils, and she shared her specimens and impressive knowledge about them with scientists at the time. What made Anning discoveries so important to the history of science, is that they provided evidence that forced scientists to imagine, like De la Beche, an ancient world different from our own, and so to begin to think of evolution and how it might occur. …show more content…
They provided evidence that was central to the development of new ideas about the history of the Earth. It encouraged more people than ever before to speculate about processes that could cause species that once populated Earth to disappear and be replaced by new species. Mary’s contribution had a major impact at a time when there was little to challenge the biblical interpretation of the story of creation and of the flood. Was the world created in 7 days? From fossilized feces, scientists learnt something on the diets of animals hundreds of millions of years