Mary Anning · Mary Anning: Stone and Light

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The fossil hunter who survived lightning and taught science to read deep time. A memento mori obituary comic centered on Survived a lightning strike as an infant, then spent a short life uncovering extinct worlds from the Lyme Regis cliffs before dying of breast cancer at 47.

Citable Summary

Mary Anning (1799–1847) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: Survived a lightning strike as an infant, then spent a short life uncovering extinct worlds from the Lyme Regis cliffs before dying of breast cancer at 47.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including Natural History Museum; Britannica; Lyme Regis Museum.

Story Notes

This comic follows Mary Anning, The fossil hunter who survived lightning and taught science to read deep time.

The story turns on Survived a lightning strike as an infant, then spent a short life uncovering extinct worlds from the Lyme Regis cliffs before dying of breast cancer at 47, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes Natural History Museum; Britannica; Lyme Regis Museum.

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Natural History Museum
Britannica
Lyme Regis Museum

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