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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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Juan Rodriguez holding a Giant panda.
Scientist Spotlight Videos
A large poster coming out of a printer being grabbed by two hands
Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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A prehistoric, reddish-brown painting of animals on a rock shelter in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe

Make Your Own Cave and Cave Art

Hands-On Activities
Color illustration of an ancient human making art on a cave wall

Handprints of Your Family

Hands-On Activities

Natural Jewelry

Hands-On Activities

Create an Imaginary Animal

Hands-On Activities
Large butterfly with black wings and pink body

Butterfly Colors and Biomimicry

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Asteroid headed towards Earth at the end of the Cretaceous.

Mass Extinction of Large Dinosaurs and More

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Aerial view of an ash plume rising from Mount Cleveland volcano, which has snow on its upper slopes.

Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics

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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
Hands-On Activities
A gray, clay cone with cuneiform inscriptions covering most of it

For the Record

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An Island Fox standing on a gravel path next to a bush. The fox has a grey face and rump with a reddish brown body.

Island Biodiversity Past to Future

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Two men sitting on rocks in the woods, the one on the left pressing plants between pages and the other watching.

World Languages: Diversity, Endangerment, and Revitalization

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Mummified bird inside an oblong ceramic tube.

Mummies and Mummification

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