PALAEONTOLOGY pioneer Mary Anning is making herself at home in Warwick.
The Mary Anning Maquette, an original clay model of a new sculpture in Mary’s home town of Lyme Regis, can be seen at Market Hall Museum, as part of a country-wide tour.
It is has taken pride of place among a display of fossils including ichthyosaur skulls, discovered in local quarries in Victorian times.
Mary’s discoveries of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and other fossils on the Jurassic Coast at the beginning of the nineteenth century were studied by the most eminent palaeontologists of the day.
While she received respect from scientists during her lifetime, it was perhaps not the full recognition she deserved.
Warwickshire was once under the Jurassic Sea and some of the fossils found in the county are just like the ones Mary discovered.
