On the cliffs by the English Channel lay a fossilized spine with a neck so long that the science of the time deemed it impossible. A prominent Parisian anatomist declared the find to be a hoax and a conglomerate based on just a drawing. The woman who had dug it up with her own hands was not even allowed into the lecture hall. She was left with only debts and unrecognized merits. If you like the series #WomenInScience, share it further (preferably this first post of the thread, the others just need to be liked so you know what you have already read). Her name was Mary Anning and she lived in Lyme Regis, a small coastal town on the Dorset coast. Today, this area is called the Jurassic Coast. Two hundred million years ago, a warm sea flowed through here, and the bodies of creatures, which no one could name at the beginning of the 19th century, fell into clay sediments and limestones. (translated)
