Accidental discoveries happen all the time in science, but the biggest reptile ever was accidentally discovered by an 11-year-old kid.

My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so too was I. As a child I walked the seafront with my father and brother to find what we then called curiosities.

A story about a self-taught palaeontologist called Mary Anning has been transformed to the big screen as Ammonite, a depiction of a 19th-century love affair. Francis Lee, who wrote and directed ...

A pretty little seaside town on the Dorset -Devon border has stunning fossil-filled cliffs and an array of beaches to pick ...

The statue was created in wax and then covered in a ceramic shell A statue of fossil hunter Mary Anning which will stand close to cliffs where she made many of her discoveries is nearing completion.

In this activity, your class will think like a palaeontologist and compare their own bodies to one of Mary Anning’s real fossil finds. This simple scientific activity is a good complement to learning ...

Both authors begin with Mary Anning, a self-taught fossil hunter who was the impoverished daughter of a cabinetmaker. One day in 1811, in a fossil-rich area near her home in Lyme Regis ...

Enjoy unrivalled views of the Museum’s famous architecture, browse our selection of incredible specimens in the Cabinet of Curiosities, and see copies of Mary Anning's original sketches and letters on ...