Mary Anning and a World Full of Monsters
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Toothy ichthyosaurs, giant plesiosaurs, flying pterosaurs... What beasts could possibly be more terrifying? For one woman who spent her life among these fossilized giants, the problems of poverty, gender inequality, and theft of her life’s work proved to be much more ugly monsters than these.  Story told by Garrett Tucker.  You can discover even more about science and the world around us in our magazine, so head over to oyla.us to check it out!
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