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Juan Rodriguez holding a Giant panda.
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Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Looking down at a beige skeleton of a boy that is partially excavated in a pit in the ground.

Forensic Anthropology

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3 skulls (cranium only) against a black background.

Human Evolution

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Meteorite on table

Meteorites: Messengers From Outer Space

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Extinction Over Time

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Head shot of T. rex skeleton with Rocky Mountains in the background.

A New View of T. Rex

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Painting of a swamp that has green colored ferns and plants. Foreground tree barks are brown, those in the distance are bare.

Global Climate Change in Perspective

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Old, lined notebook open to script-style notes and prints of brownish fruit-like shapes outlined in pen

Digitizing Nature – Field Books to Fossils

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Illustration of animals near the ocean floor 510 million years ago. A large squid-like creature hovers over smaller organisms.

Early Life on Earth – Animal Origins

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Worksheet: Exploring Biominerals

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Worksheet: Exploring the Cambrian Explosion of Life

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Worksheet: Plesiosaurs and Other Large Marine Reptiles

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