Actress portraying Paleontologist Mary Anning holding fossilized sea shells
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Select Days - March 23 - May 5

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Where did we get the name dinosaur? Where did the rhyme "She sells seashells by the seashore" come from? What secrets can fossils tell us? Learn these things and more as you step back in time to meet some of the famous 19th century paleontologists that helped shape the early history of paleontology.

Actors from the Great Dickens Christmas Fair will portray Sir Richard Owen, Rev. William Buckland, Thomas Huxley, and renowned fossil finder Mary Anning. They will have fossils on display and will explain their importance in our knowledge of ancient life on earth.

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