--- title: Google Doodle Honors Mary Anning, Early Woman Paleontologist description: Anning was famous for discovering early dinosaur fossils at time when few women were scientists canonical: https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-21T12:14:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:38:14.012Z og:title: Google's homepage doodle honors paleontologist Mary Anning og:description: Anning was famous for discovering early dinosaur fossils at time when few women were scientists og:url: https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google's homepage doodle honors paleontologist Mary Anning twitter:description: Anning was famous for discovering early dinosaur fossils at time when few women were scientists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Google Doodle Honors Mary Anning, Female Paleontologist ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell May 21, 2014 12:14 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell May 21, 2014 12:14 PM UTC Google’s homepage doodle today features paleontologist Mary Anning, on the 215th anniversary of the famous British fossil finder’s birth. Anning was born on May 21, 1799 and became known around the world for key findings she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at [Lyme Regis in Dorset](http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html), southern England, an area particularly rich in fossils. She discovered the first ichthyosaur skeleton at the age of 12, as well as the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found. As a woman with a working class background, Anning did not always receive full credit for her work, but she was awarded a stipend by the [Geological Society of London](https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/anning.html) and named Honorary Member of the new Dorset County Museum one year before her death of breast cancer at age 47\. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Honors Mary Anning, Female Paleontologist","datePublished":"2014-05-21T12:14:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:38:14.012Z","description":"The female paleontologist born 215 years ago today was famous for discovering early dinosaur fossils at time when few women were scientists","url":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Appreciation","TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/","name":"Google Doodle Honors Mary Anning, Female Paleontologist"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/107287/mary-anning-google-doodle/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```