a new research and survey vessel was launched as Mary Anning for Swansea University. and a suite of rooms named after her at the Natural History Museum in London. Statue of Mary Anning In August 2018, a campaign called "Mary Anning Rocks" was formed by an 11-year-old school girl from Dorset, Evie Swire, supported by her mother Anya Pearson. The campaign was set up to remember Anning in her hometown of Lyme Regis by erecting a statue and creating a learning legacy in her name. Patrons and supporters include Professor Alice Roberts, Sir David Attenborough and novelist Tracy Chevalier. A crowdfunding campaign began but was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. The fundraising campaign, led by the charity Mary Anning Rocks, rebooted in November 2020. As of January 2021, Evie Swire's campaign had resulted in a commission to sculptor Denise Dutton. The statue was granted planning permission by Dorset Council for a space overlooking Black Ven, where Anning made many of her finds. Alice Roberts and Evie Swire unveiled the statue on 21 May 2022, the 223rd anniversary of Anning's birth. The life-sized bronze statue depicts Anning with hammer and fossil in hand, overlooking the cliffs that still attract fossil hunters today. It is prominently displayed in Lyme Regis on southern England’s Jurassic Coast. A further emergency crowdfunding campaign began in August 2020 to raise funds to bid for a handwritten letter from Anning to William Buckland in 1829 about a box of coprolites (fossil poo) and a new plesiosaur she had discovered. The letter later sold at Sotheby's for £100,800 but the campaign had only raised £18,532. In fiction Mary Anning appears as a Heroic Spirit belonging to the Lancer class in the web manga Learn Even More with Manga!, derived from the video game Fate/Grand Order. Her depiction in that manga brings several features from Anning's life into play, such as fossil-collecting gear, fossils, and live versions of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. She later appears in the video game, voiced by Maria Naganawa. Anning served as inspiration for Sarah Perry's fossil-hunting protagonist, Cora, in the 2016 novel The Essex Serpent. A film based on segments of Anning's life and legacy entitled Ammonite'', directed by Francis Lee, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2020. Kate Winslet portrays Anning and Saoirse Ronan portrays Charlotte Murchison, with the two engaged in a fictional lesbian relationship. The