Her brother Joe secures an apprenticeship elsewhere in town, leaving Mary with a brief description of the location of a piece of fossil he had discovered about a year earlier in the rock face. Mary is drawn to the cliffs and the prospect of finding the "Giant Croc" bones of legend. Kulling's depiction of the family's poverty and grief over many lost children is powerful, but these details never overshadow Mary's development. In order to address this lack of personal history, Kulling has created a fictionalized account of Anning's childhood, specifically focusing on the scientist's first major fossil discovery at age 12, when she found an ichthyosaurus in the cliffs near her home in Lyme Regis, on the Southern coast of Great Britain. What cannot be disputed is her contribution to our modern understanding of prehistoric creatures and paleontology. Gr 4–7-Mary Anning (1799–1847) has been described as the "greatest fossilist the world ever knew." In actuality, there is very little definitively known about Anning's childhood and later life.
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