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Two light-skinned women and one dark-skinned man holding fossils while standing behind a table with fossils on it, including what looks like a model of a skeleton of a long-necked creature with flippers. A large fossil of a similar creature embedded in stone stands upright to the left of the people.

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A rock with yellow and white crystals

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Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri

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