Mary Anning (was English Traditional Begging)

[tanwo at hotmail.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> The "she" who sells sea shells (the ones that no longer contain sea 
> food) was that Mary Ann Something who sold souvenirs at some 
> English seaside resort and was 11 years old when her sea shell 
> gathering (to stock her shop) turned up some important fossil. She 
> contacted a paleontologist about it and thus became a big name 
> fossil hunter, except I can't seem to remember any of the important 
> details.
> 

Mary Anning I think. And was probably an ichthyosaur, found in the 
cliffs at Lyme Regis in Dorest.

W