She searched the cliffs of Dorset with nothing more than a hammer, a keen eye, and a fierce determination to uncover the secrets buried in stone. Mary Anning wasn’t born into privilege or academia. She sold seashells to survive, yet she ended up changing the very foundations of science. The fossils she unearthed in the early 1800s forced the world to confront a radical idea: that life on Earth was far older and far stranger than anyone had dared to believe. Born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, a small co

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