Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon

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The girl who found the first sea reptile fossil

Mary Anning loved to scour the shores of Lyme Regis, England, where she was once born in 1799, for stone sea lilies and shells. Her father had taught her how one can use the tools with which she dug into the sand and scraped on the stones that fell from the cliffs. And he had taught her how one can look, to look hard, for “curiosities.”

One day, when she was once eleven, Mary Anning spotted some markings on a wide, flat stone. She chipped at it together with her hammer and chisel until the lines of a tooth emerged–after which those of any other tooth. Weeks of persistent effort yielded a face about four feet long. But what creature was once this? Her brother known as it a sea dragon.

Many months later, Mary Anning still had not unearthed what she only then learned was once known as a fossil. But she discovered that her discovery was once precious and that the painstaking effort to uncover traces of ancient life was once profoundly essential. Jeannine Atkins’s sensitive and engaging portrait is strikingly illustrated by Michael Dooling, whose powerful paintings capture young Mary Anning’s devotion to her work, and the entire joy she found in it.

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