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. Something I learnt was that Mary Anning was the first to complete the skeleton of a Plesiosaurus and an Ichthyosaurus , she was 23 years old when she discovered the Plesiosaurus and 12 years old for Ichthyosaurus.