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The true story of Mary Anning: The girl who helped discover dinosaurs

BBC Ideas · UK · Documentary / Animation · 4 min · 163K views

Directed by Anna Humphries · 2018

The story of Mary Anning, the Lyme Regis fossil hunter whose discoveries changed science but whose work went unrecognised in her time.

Animated with sand from Mary Anning's own beach, this award-winning short is as beautiful as it is enlightening.

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