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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
Screenshot of presentation slide showing fossil preparator Myria Perez alongside paleontologist Kay Behrensmeyer

Webinar: Expert Is Online: Fossil Preparation with Myria Perez

Videos and Webcasts
Video still with three images: A person holding up a drawing of a crocodile-like creature with a really long tail; a man with a beard standing next to an easel with a similar drawing on it; and a person signing in American Sign Language.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Paleo Portraits

Hands-On ActivitiesArts & CraftsVideos and Webcasts
Maggy Benson and Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer are seated at a table with several large bones and various rocks on the table and in a display case behind them.

How Bones Fossilize ... or Don't

Videos and Webcasts
A woman in a yellow shirt and a man in a plaid shirt sit at a table with antlers and other objects on it.

What Tiny Marine Fossils Reveal about Extinction

Videos and Webcasts
Host Maggy Benson and Paleobotanist Scott Wing talk at a table during a Smithsonian Science How video webcast.

Paleobotany – Climate Change Past and Present

Videos and Webcasts
Dr. Conrad Labandeira and Maggy Benson in his lab with various fossils on the table.

Fossil Forensics - Plant and Insect Relationships

Videos and Webcasts
Maggy Benson and Dr. Matthew Carrano are seated at a table with many small boxes containing specimens.

What Tiny Fossils Explain about Big Dinosaur Ecosystems

Videos and Webcasts
Maggy Benson and Dr. Hans Sues are sitting at a table with a variety of rocks and tools in front of them.

How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs

Videos and Webcasts
A woman in a red shirt and man in a black shirt sitting at a table with plant and animal fossils. He is holding a fossil.

Mass Extinction – Solving the Dinosaur Mystery

Videos and Webcasts
Michelle Pinsdorf and Maggy Benson in the Fossil Prep Lab with bones, tools and notebooks on the table.

Inside the Smithsonian's Fossil Prep Lab

Videos and Webcasts
Video screenshot showing a presentation slide with six numbered objects on it; one looks like a large tooth.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – What Is a Fossil?

Hands-On ActivitiesArts & CraftsVideos and Webcasts