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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
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Illustration of a crossection of a hillside showing horizontal geological layers, some of which have fossils in them.

It's a Date

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Video screenshot showing a large image of illustrations of five different dinosaur skeletons and small images of three people's faces to the right.

Webinar: Explore How Dinosaurs Moved with Paleontologist Matthew Carrano

Videos and Webcasts
Asian elephant illustration

Elephant Evolution

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Paleontologist and Curator of Dinosauria Matt Carrano and host Maggy Benson talk during a Zoom video webinar

Webinar: Exploring Smithsonian's Dinosaurs

Videos and Webcasts
Illustration of a silhouette of a pilot whale, showing the whale's skeleton

Whale Evolution

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Dozens of grains of fossil pollen, of many different shapes, on a slide, magnified.

Tiny Fossils, Big Picture

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Diagram of skeleton of a bird-like creature, ichthyornis, with some parts labeled

Dinosaurs Take Flight

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Paleobiologist Advait Jukar touches a fossil elephant skull that is on a table next to other fossils.

Forgotten Elephants of Deep Time

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

Fossil Ammonites

Videos and Webcasts
Text - Briana Pobiner, Archaeologist under an image of a woman in field work clothes kneeling in a grassy field looking at something

Webinar: Explore Field Science at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya with Briana Pobiner

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

Plesiosaurs and other Large Marine Reptiles

Videos and Webcasts
A man leaning against a rock face while wearing a helmet and backpack. Mountains are in the background.

The Cambrian Explosion of Life with Paleontologist Karma Nanglu

Videos and Webcasts