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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.
Scientist Spotlight Videos
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
Smithsonian Libraries: Natural History & Physical Sciences Subject Guides

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A prehistoric, reddish-brown painting of animals on a rock shelter in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe

Make Your Own Cave and Cave Art

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Color illustration of an ancient human making art on a cave wall

Handprints of Your Family

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Natural Jewelry

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Create an Imaginary Animal

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Image of two hands and a fieldbook while a drawing is being drawn onto the fieldbook

¡Descubre la Historia Natural!: Crea tu propio Cuaderno de Campo de Historia Natural

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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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Explorando más a Fondo en Casa: Diseña tu propia gema

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Plastic cast of a male modern human right femur. The cast displays the pathology of an unset healed fracture. Catalog number EO401737.

Forensic Mysteries – Pathologies on Human Femora (Thigh Bones)

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A blue and orange mandarinfish, or Synchiropus splendidus

What Makes Things Blue?

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Black glass weapon shaped like a cutlass.

What Do These Objects Have in Common?

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A gray, clay cone with cuneiform inscriptions covering most of it

For the Record

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Fossil Leaf Damage

Fossil Leaves and Evidence of Insect Damage

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