MARY ANNING WAS BORN IN LYME REGIS ENGLAND ON MAY 21 1799 HER FAMILY WAS POOR HER FATHER RICHARD MADE LITTLE MONEY AS A CARPENTER WHEN SHE WAS VERY YOUNG LIGHTNING STRUCK A TREE WHERE PEOPLE CARING FOR HER WERE SHELTERING ALL RIGHT I WILL FINISH THIS CASE FOR MS AUSTEN'S HOUSE LATER ZAP LET'S GO FIND FOSSILS BUT MARY SURVIVED AND BECAME AN ACTIVE AND LIVELY GIRL SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY SO HE OFTEN WENT TO BLUE LIAS A ROCKY FORMATION ON THE COAST OF LYME REGIS TO FIND FOSSILS
THE LAYERS THAT MADE UP THIS ROCKY FORMATION WERE MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD THERE RICHARD ANNING LOOKED FOR FOSSILS AND SHELLS WITH MARY AND HER BROTHER JOSEPH LOOK MARY THESE ARE CALLED ARROWHEADS BUT THEY ARE SHARK TEETH WHEN THE SEA CRASHES AGAINST THE SHORE ROCK LAYERS ON THE SURFACE PEEL OFF NEW ONES BECOME VISIBLE A STORM IS COMING SEE THAT'S GOOD FOR US IT SAVES US A LOT OF WORK AND WE CAN FIND VERY INTERESTING THINGS IN THOSE BUT IT IS DANGEROUS WORK THE OCEAN CAN COME BACK AND SWALLOW YOU
ONCE THE ANNINGS DECIDED THEY HAD COLLECTED ENOUGH FOSSILS THEY TOOK THE FOSSILS HOME TO CLEAN AND PREPARE THEM IN 1810 MARY'S FATHER DIED IN AN ACCIDENT WITHOUT ANY INCOME THE ANNING FAMILY HAD TO DEPEND ON CHARITY FROM NEIGHBORS TO SURVIVE HERE YOU GO MOLLY THANK YOU MRS STOCK NEXT THEY LAID FOSSILS OUT ON A TABLE IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE THAT WAY TOURISTS COULD BUY FOSSILS AS SOUVENIRS FROM THEIR VACATIONS ON THE COAST MARY USED TO WALK AROUND BLUE LIAS MOURNING HER FATHER WHEN ONE DAY LET'S GO SEE THE ODDITIES OF MR ANNING OH
