By this time, however, paleontological momentum had moved to England. In 1812, at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, an extraordinary child named Mary Anning, aged eleven, twelve or thirteen, depending on whose account you read, found a strange fossilized sea monster; 17 feet long and now known as the ichthyosaurus, embedded in the steep and dangerous cliffs along the English Channel.
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By this time, however, paleontological momentum had moved to England. In 1812, at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, an extraordinary child named Mary Anning, aged eleven, twelve or thirteen, depending on whose account you read, found a strange fossilized sea monster; 17 feet long and now known as the ichthyosaurus, embedded in the steep and dangerous cliffs along the English Channel.