They STOLE Mary Anning’s Fossils 🦕 #womeninhistory #maryanning #herstory #womeninstem #paleontology

Añadido: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]While paleontology was becoming a science, [music] fueled by Mary's findings, Mary herself was still treated as a curiosity seller.

[00:00:08]The fossils she risked her life to find were sold for pitiful sums.

[00:00:14]And the money was barely enough to keep her family afloat.

[00:00:19]At one point, her mother wrote begging letters to the British Museum [music] because a curator had taken one of Mary's ichthyosaurs and never paid for it.

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