#RA-3493Read AloudCore & AcademicHard
Fossilized Sea Monster
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Prep: 30-40 Seconds
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 11, 12 or 13, 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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