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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.
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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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Meteorite on table

Meteorites: Messengers From Outer Space

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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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Large butterfly with black wings and pink body

Butterfly Colors and Biomimicry

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Mummified bird inside an oblong ceramic tube.

Mummies and Mummification

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Remains of Jane found in Jamestown, Va. Image shows bones in the ground with a trowel for scale.

Bones and Forensic Anthropology

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Closeup view of stained teeth of skeleton

Bones and Environmental Health

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Powder moving away from the source

Modeling and Measuring Volcanic Eruptions

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Brilliant mix of shapes colors like stained glass of a thin section of Antarctic meteorite.

Antarctic Meteorites and Mars

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Several loose feathers (grey with white tips) are compared with a bird's wing

Forensic Science of Bird Strikes

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Allende Meteorite - a rock with sharp edges displayed on a wood surface

Asteroids and Meteorites

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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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