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Maggy Benson and Dr. Joshua A. Bell sit at a table with several cell phones and various rocks and shells.

Unseen Connections – A Natural History of the Cellphone

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez sit at a table with several colorful pictures and brochures.

Recovering Voices – Sustaining Global Linguistic Diversity

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Maggy Benson and Meet Dr. David Hunt are at a table with several boxes, each with some pieces of bone.

Mummy Science – Natural and Cultural Preserved Remains

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Torben Rick are seated at a table with several furry specimens in front of them.

Island Biodiversity – Tracking Human Influences

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Briana Pober sit at a table with casts of early human skulls, their stone tools, and the skull of a carnivore.

Human Evolution – Early Human Diets

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Maggy Benson and Dr. Sabrina Sholts are seated at a table with a black jar, several bones, a small human skeleton, and various tools.

How Bones Reveal Environmental Health

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Paleobiologist Advait Jukar touches a fossil elephant skull that is on a table next to other fossils.

Forgotten Elephants of Deep Time

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Laura Soul, Maggy Benson and Emmanuel Kyei-Baffour at a table with several bone specimens.

Plesiosaurs and other Large Marine Reptiles

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Emmanuel Kyei-Baffour, Maggy Benson and Molly Kampf seated at a table in a room full of card files and several specimens pictures and tools on the table.

Unlocking Hidden Worlds through Archaeology and Archives

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Emmanuel Kyei-Baffour, Maggy Benson and Dr. Lucy Chang in Q?rius standing behind a table with a number of specimens.

Fossil Ammonites

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Host Maggy Benson and geologist Elizabeth Cottrell laugh after being sprayed with seltzer water on the set of a webcast.

Volcano Geochemistry - Windows to Earth's Interior

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Diagram of skeleton of a bird-like creature, ichthyornis, with some parts labeled

Dinosaurs Take Flight

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
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