Ammonite and Mary Anning - Ep 140
Oct 10, 2021•44 min•Ep. 140
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Episode description
Released on Hulu in 2020, Ammonite is a fictionalized movie that portrays a few years at the end of Mary Anning's life. She was an amateur paleontologist and with her family discovered the first ichthyosaur fossils in England. We talk about the movie, what it got right and what it didn't, and about the real Mary Anning and her life, work, and discoveries.
Links
- Ammonite IMDB Entry
- Ammonite movie review and summary by Roger Ebert
- Mary Anning (Wikipedia)
- Mary Anning: the unsung hero of fossil discovery
- Ammonite: Who was the real Mary Anning?
- Mary Anning (Lyme Regis Museum)
- The forgotten fossil hunter who transformed Britain’s Jurassic Coast
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- chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
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