Day: 19 August 2025

Before we took part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century.
Mary anning is one of the most interesting paleontologists I have ever reasearched.
Something I learnt was when Mary anning was only 5 months old, she was with her babysitter at a event until a huge thunderstorm broke out and the babysitter took Mary to shelter under a tree along with another kid but thunder struck the three of them killing the child and the babysitter except for Mary who survived which was a miracle.

Our challenge was to become a palaeontologist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimage what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image. We used Adobe express to make the image as if it was back when the dinosaurs once walked.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Triceratops.
Did you know that the triceratops is one of the most common fossils found?
This task fun because me and my partner found a lot of facts about the triceratops which made it interesting.
LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils.