Paleontologists - Theme: Footprints from the Past - Dinosaurs - LibGuides at Wellington College Hangzhou

Mary Anning

Britannica: Mary Anning
This Britannica School article gives a basic overview into Mary Anning's life and what she did. You can read it at level 1 or level 2.
Natural History Museum: Mary Anning
This article from the British Natural History Museum in London gives an overview of Mary Anning, including some of her most important discoveries.
Lyme Regis Museum: Mary Anning
A basic article from the Lyme Regis Museum, located on the Jurassic Coast where Mary Anning lived. Contains an embedded video that will not play outside of school.
Jurassic Coast Trust
The Jurassic Coast Trust looks after the areas where Mary Anning found dinosaur fossils.

Mary Anning by Sally M. Walker; Phyllis V. Saroff (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781575054254
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Introducing new readers to some of history's most interesting and important people, these biographies focus on the pivotal episodes that show what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous. Although written in a story format, these books are not fictionalized accounts. A chronology of major events follows the story, along with a brief summary of the subject's life.
Fossils by Rebecca Felix
ISBN: 9781532112232
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
How do fossils form? In this Fossils title, readers will learn the answer to that question along with its causes, processes, effects, and why it is important. They will also be introduced to Mary Anning, a paleontologist. Bright, full-page photos fill the book, with easy-to-read text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

张弥曼 Zhang Miman

Zhang Miman is an expert in fish fossils, and has spent much time studying those in river basins of Yunnan Province.

She studied in Moscow for her first (undergraduate) degree, and then completed her doctorate (PhD) at Stockholm University in Sweden.

Now 84 years-old, she still works at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Zhang is very interested in fish evolution, including how fish went from see to land. She has written many academic papers and books, including one about Late Mesozoic fish fossils of Zhejiang Province, China. Many different specimens have been named after her, including a fish called Meemannia (an extinct fish of clade Sarcopterygii) and a small dinosaur called Sinovenator changii.

Zhang is not interested in being famous, and tends to avoid the spotlight. She has won many awards including the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards in 2018, and many honorary doctorates.

China University of Geosciences

Robert Broom

Britannica: Robert Broom
Find out about Robert Broom and his important discoveries.
Britannica: Mrs. Ples
Details of a discovery by Robert Broom.
Britannica: Cradle of Humankind

Theme: Footprints from the Past - Dinosaurs : Paleontologists

What is Paleontology?

Mary Anning

张弥曼 Zhang Miman

Robert Broom