Mary Anning has been part of paleontology’s history since its very beginning. Yet this inspiring character’s childhood remains largely unfamiliar to the public. A self-taught English fossil collector, ...

Back in January, film fans were fascinated by Netflix movie The Dig’s portrayal of the real-life Sutton Hoo excavation and all the treasure discovered at the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship’s burial site ...

Ammonite tells the moving tale of acclaimed (yet often overlooked) fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and her affair with Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan). Set on England off the coast of ...

Whenever we think about the origins of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and geology, we’re inevitably drawn to 19th century figures like Charles Darwin, Georges Cuvier – the founder of vertebrate ...

For the lady in question is Mary Anning, immortalised in The Geographical Society’s 1850 portrait by Benjamin Donne – and she was no retiring Victorian type. Born into a family of impoverished ...

The Excavation of Mary Anning is, conceptually-speaking: a company of modern-day players coming together to tell a 19th century story. We are hoping to build an ensemble that reflects the diversity of ...

A town's first statue of a non-royal woman has been unveiled. The life-size bronze of novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner has ...