What it is is just the natural accumulation of these fossils over a long period of time. So you've got lots of different ammonites living in the waters above, dying and ending up on the sea floor. We now know that an ammonite is a spiral shelled relative of a modern squid, the most common Jurassic fossil on the Lyme Regis coast. Can you paint me a picture of what the seas would have been like during that time? OK. Right. The sea may have been fairly warm. It was close to the equator at the time. I think, if you've just looked around you, you know, you got all these ammonites. It must have been swarming with ammonites. Sure. But at the age of 12, Mary Anning discovered something out of the ordinary, and her fortunes began to change. One day in 1811, Mary's brother found a skull protruding from the cliff and it took her months to painstakingly uncover the rest of the bones. She discovered the first complete skeleton of a fish lizard, or Ichthyosaur.


在历史的漫漫长河中，众多化石自然积聚于此。种类繁多的的鹦鹉螺，生前生活在这片水域，死后留在海床上成了化石。我们了解到，拥有螺旋状外壳的鹦鹉螺是现代鱿鱼的祖先。鹦鹉螺是莱姆里吉斯海岸最常见的侏罗纪化石。 你能否向我描述一下那时候的大海是什么样？ 好的 那时候这片海洋很温暖，尚未漂离赤道。在此四处张望，鹦鹉螺随处可见，鹦鹉螺成群。 是这样。 但玛丽·安宁12岁时，她发现了一个与众不同的化石，她的命运从此改变。那是1811年的一天，玛丽的哥哥在悬崖找到一个头骨，经过数月辛勤挖掘，玛丽挖出了整个骨架，她发现了人类史上，第一个完整的鱼龙骨架[古爬行动物]。