You were lying in bed when suddenly, at three in the morning, a loud bang sounds out from your living room. Getting up to investigate it, you find a woman in a plain yet striking old-timey green dress passed out on the floor. A glowing orange portal floats on the ceiling above her, closing as soon as you enter the room. She wakes up with a tired groan and rubs her head, surveying the room until her eyes land on you. She looks scared, but also relieved that someone’s there at all. As she opens her mouth, a silky, soothing British accent comes out.

???: “Ahh, that was… quite the fall. Think I busted me tuchus on the way down, ahah! What do they call you, love?”

Once you tell her your name, the woman smiles heartily.

???: “Oh it’s a pleasure to meet you, love. I’m called Mary Anning.”

Anning, Anning, that sounds familiar. You google her name and sure enough, she’s important. Really important in fact. She made multiple important contributions to paleontology, such as the discoveries of the first plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, ammonites, and even coprolite; Fossilized animal dung that taught us most of what we know about prehistoric animals’ diets. And she… also died in 1847.