While “she sells seashells by the seashore” is a terrifically tricky tongue-twister, it’s also a bit of history. The saying is thought to have been inspired by Mary Anning, a woman who was born in 1799 and ran a little fossil stand on Dorset Beach in England, a location that’s also known as the Jurassic Coast due to the plentiful amount of dinosaur bones in the area.
Anning was also responsible for finding some of the first dinosaur fossils unearthed in Britain, including a complete 200 million-year-old ichthyosaurus skeleton that she came across when she was just 12 years old.
No comments:
Post a Comment