Unlike any famous scientists in the 18th century, Mary Anning was born in a poor minority family. For instance, Anning’s family suffered heavily from the England’s economy crisis due to the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars that caused food shortages. Her father, Richard, often took Mary on fossil hunting expeditions to make more money for the family. The source where Anning’s family collected fossils was the coastal cliffs around Lyme Regis. This place consists of fossils from the seas of the Jurassic period and is one of the richest fossils location in Britain. Fossils collecting are dangerous work because the cliff where Richard and Mary collected fossils is unstable. Especially, they only collected fossils during winter
