KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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Archimedes
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Anders Celsius
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Mary Anning
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Rosalind Franklin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Around 1811, when Mary was 12, Joseph found a strange-looking fossilised skull. Mary then searched for and painstakingly dug the outline of its 5.2-metre-long skeleton. By the time she was done, several months later, everyone in town knew she had discovered what must have been a monster.
Detailed explanation-2: -This 195-million-year-old marine reptile was discovered at some time before 1836 by the British palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799–1847). The ichthyosaur fossil is so well preserved that fish bones and scales from its last meal can still be seen inside its ribcage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Anning has been credited with the first discovery of ichthyosaur fossils. Although this is not entirely true, she did help to discover the first specimen of Ichthyosaurus to be known by the scientific community of London.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Anning, (born May 21, 1799, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England-died March 9, 1847, Lyme Regis), prolific English fossil hunter and amateur anatomist credited with the discovery of several dinosaur specimens that assisted in the early development of paleontology.