It’s Boxing Day. What are you going to do today?

Letter and drawing from Mary Anning announcing the discovery of a fossil animal now known as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 26 December 1823 (Public Domain)

Mary Anning described the discovery of a plesiosaur to the world in a letter from 26 December 1823. You were probably hungover.

*For the unfamiliar, Boxing Day is the day after Christmas.

From Wikipedia via Kind of A Menace via Scientific Illustration

Author: Josh Witten

http://www.thefinchandpea.com

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