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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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Gabriela Farfan, a woman with long, brown hair and a blue shirt, standing next to a block of quartz crystals slightly taller than she is

What Is a Mineral?

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Webinar: Volcanoes and Pyroclastic Flows

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Dozens of grains of fossil pollen on a slide, magnified.

Tiny Fossils, Big Picture

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
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A woman holding a reddish-pink mineral while standing at a table that has many other minerals, and gems on it.

Webinar: Exploring Minerals

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The Cambrian Explosion of Life with Paleontologist Karma Nanglu

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Webinar: What Mars Reveals about Life in Our Universe

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Tracking the Health of Coral Reefs: Live from Belize

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