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Observe and reason: Mary Anning’s fossil challenge

In this activity, your class will think like a palaeontologist and compare their own bodies to one of Mary Anning’s real fossil finds.

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The incomparable tale of Evelyn Cheesman

The adventures of a tenacious female explorer brought to life by comic artist Sammy Borras.

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Mary Anning: the unsung hero of fossil discovery

Mary was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector. Her lifetime was a constellation of firsts.

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Charles Darwin: History’s most famous biologist

Charles Robert Darwin transformed the way we understand the natural world with ideas that, in his day, were nothing short of revolutionary.

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Who was Alfred Russel Wallace?

An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin.

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