Did you know that a girl named Mary Anning is credited as being a pioneer in paleontology? Her discovery of dinosaur bones (an Ichthyosaurus and a Plesiosaurus) when she was a teenager shocked the world! Many people did not believe this “giant lizards” could have existed millions of years ago. Mary Anning made many paleontological discoveries all through her life, but was not given the credit she deserved because she was a woman and because she was self-taught.
Our class has been investigating how fossils teach us about the past. Today, we made our own fossils by ‘imprinting’ dinosaurs into salt dough. Look at our amazing results!
For more information on Mary Anning and her contributions to Science, check out the video below: