Published on December 28, 2024 at 8:16 p.m. / Modified on December 28, 2024 at 8:20 p.m.
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On a beach in Dorset, in 1824, near the village of Lyme Regis, Mary Anning made the discovery of the fossil which would make her talk, in England but also in all scholarly circles abroad. She unearthed the first complete plesiosaur skeleton (Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus) – an aquatic reptile with a long neck and measuring almost 3 meters – dating from the Lower Jurassic, approximately 200 million years old.
Meticulously, she prepared it herself, drew it and exchanged views with the recognized scientists of the time who described this extinct species, without mentioning the name of its discoverer. Despite these many other finds – including ichthyosaur and pterosaur specimens – she was credited only once by a male colleague, the reverend and naturalist William Buckland, at a conference of the Geological Society of London .
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