Meet Mary Anning, 'greatest fossil hunter' honored with Google doodle

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Today’s Google doodle celebrates the 215th birthday of Mary Anning, a 19th century fossil collector and paleontologist who, even as a poor working-class woman in a field dominated by wealthy upper-class men, helped shape the study of ancient extinct creatures in the early years of geology and...

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