After his death, to help her mother make ends meet, Anning continued to collect fossils she would sell to tourists and collectors. "Mary Anning had very little formal education," says Emma Bernard ...

Mary Anning was born on 21 May 1799 ... Image caption, After her death in 1847, Mary was forgotten about for many years. However, people started to realise how important her discoveries were.

Katy Hamilton plays a young Mary Anning in the film written and directed ... "The film goes from her early life to her death at the age of 47 from breast cancer and all the trials and tribulations ...

Top fossil hunters and palaeontological experts are gathering for an annual fossil festival on the Dorset Coast. The Festival Lyme Regis Fossil celebrates the geological heritage of the Jurassic ...