She Sold Seashells ...and dragons : The curious Mary Anning. Re-imagined.

Mary Anning lived about 200 years ago. A bright girl from a poor family living in a small town on the south coast ofEngland, she became a successful fossil hunter, dealer and self-taught scientist. While not fully recognised in her own lifetime because she was a woman and of the wrong social class, she is nowheralded as a leading figure in the science of palaeontology, which at the time did not even have a nameHer story is well known but there is only one image of her,painted shortly before her death at age 47.She made manyof her important discoveries of 'mythical sea dragons' as a teenager and in her twenties.Now, AI technology enablesus to tell Mary's exceptional story with brand-new images - for curious readers of all ages and to help inspire today'syoung fossil entrepreneurs who follow in her wake.