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October 21st, 2009
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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling , published on October 13 by Palgrave Macmillan ( Scientific American is a Macmillan publication). The Fossil Hunter chronicles the work of Mary Anning , a woman born in 1799 in Lyme Regis on the south coast of England, who discovered the first documented dinosaur skeleton. In the following passage from the chapter entitled "A Long-Necked Beauty" Anning first discovers the skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur type. Her find is met with much skepticism, as no one believes a creature with such a long neck could actually have existed. [More] |
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