Mary Anning

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Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	May 21, 1799 Lightning Dad Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	Curios  Lyme Regis Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old Extinction was a new idea 1812 - ichthyosaur 1824 - plesiosaur Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4	Later	1847 died of cancer
Conclusion

Mary Anning is a famous fossil hunter in Lyme Regis

Mary Anning was born in May 21, 1799 and she got struck by

lightning but was unhurt, some people say that the lightning

gave her special powers, Mary’s dad taught her how to find

fossils and she started finding fossils and selling them for

her family because her family is poor and she wants to raise money for them, she was selling her sea shells that she found.

Mary’s father also taught her to find what they were

called curios at the nearby beach and famous cliffs at

Lyme Regis, Mary’s brother Joseph showed her to the

cliffs and Mary straight away could see that she saw no

ordinary creature skull. When she found the fossil the

people didn’t believe her and Mary thought that extinction

was a new idea and in 1812 Mary found a ichthyosaur fossil

after a few years later in 1824 Mary found a plesiosaur fossil

later on a few years later in 1828 Mary discovered a pterosaur

fossil and George Cuvie is a famous French zoologist and he

believed her.

Finally in 1847 Mary died of cancer when she was

just 47 years old.

After Mary died she became famous for her fossil hunting