New Delhi: Celebrating the 215th birth anniversary of Bristish fossil hunter and paleontologist Mary Anning, Google has put a doodle that features Anning searching for fossils, with the remains of creatures forming the letters of the word Google. Here are 10 things to know about the legendary fossil hunter.
1. Mary Anning was a fossil-collecting woman in the 19th century whose discoveries challenged the predominant thinking of her era.
2. She was working class and didn't start out as a scientist but she was collecting fossils to sell them to make a living and fell into this scientific discovery.
3. Anning was credited with the discovery of several dinosaur specimens that helped in the early development of palaeontology.
4. It is said that Anning spent a year extracting the dinosaur fossil from 205 million-year-old Blue Lias cliffs on the beach.
5. Tracy Chevalier's wrote a novel "Remarkable Creatures" telling the story of Mary Anning. The idea to write this novel came to Chevalier in a dinosaur museum in Dorset, England.
Anning died of breast cancer in 1847. She was 47.
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