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Juan Rodriguez holding a Giant panda.
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Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Natural objects, including whitish piece of bone and brown rocks, on cracked, gray substrate.

Fossilization - How Fossils Form

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A hand holding a pen and drawing a trilobite fossil on white paper.

Webinar: Drawing Fossils

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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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Carlos Mauricio Peredo standing behind a table with a 33 million-year-old early baleen whale fossil on it.

Fossil Whales and Whale Evolution

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Scientist cleaning bones in dinosaur. He is wearing a respirator mask, earphones, and glasses to protect himself from the dust and noise that this process generates

Fossil Preparation from Field to Museum

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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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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?

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Grey stone with brown leaf imprint

Reading Climate Change from Fossil Leaves

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Small shells of various sizes and shapes.

Tracking Global Change Through Ocean Fossils

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