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Mary
Anning Georges Her discoveries
of Ichthyosaurus
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and
the first plesiosaur gained her recognition and respect
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among
paleontologist of her day despite her limited
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education
and lack of social status. She is
credited in
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finding
many of the best fossil examples of her time.
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Georges
Cuvier who used Georges’ fossils to help
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advance
his theories of fossils being the remains of extinct
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species. Cuvier believed that the earth was very
old and
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that
mass extinction of species had occurred on various
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occasions,
a phenomenon he referred to as “revolutions”.
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