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Mary Anning and the sea dragon

by Jeannine Atkins

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An account of the finding of the first entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile, by a twelve-year-old English girl who went on to become a paleontologist.

FossilsPaleontologyPaleontologistsJuvenile literatureChildhood and youthBiographyWomenAnning, Mary, 1799-1847Paleontology, great britainWomen, biography