Mary Anning: Struck By Lightning: The True Story of the Girl Who Survived Death, Discovered Prehistoric Dragons, and Became the World's Greatest Fossi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798275010787)

One lightning strike should have killed her. Instead, it made her unstoppable.

In 1799, baby Mary Anning was struck by lightning. Three women died-but Mary survived. Some said the storm gave her special powers. Others said it made her fearless.

They were both right.

Growing up desperately poor on England's stormy coast, eleven-year-old Mary learned to hunt fossils in the crumbling cliffs of Lyme Regis. When her father died, leaving the family penniless, fossil hunting became a matter of survival.

Then she found the dragons.

→ The first complete ichthyosaur-a 17-foot sea monster with razor-sharp teeth

→ The first plesiosaur-so bizarre that scientists accused her of creating a fake

→ The first British pterosaur-proof that reptiles once ruled the skies

Mary's discoveries proved that extinction was real and Earth was millions of years old. She changed science forever.

But because she was poor and female, Mary couldn't attend university, join scientific societies, or publish papers. The men who bought her fossils became famous. Mary remained unknown.

Yet she never stopped digging. Never stopped discovering. Never stopped proving them all wrong.

Author: Timmy Rudolf
ISBN-13: 9798275010787
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d