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Paleontology

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Color illustration of a tree with several long spikes of golden resin extending down and running along a branch.

Archaeologist David Hurt Thomas, a man with short gray hair and a white goatee, talks in front of a large bookshelf and a globe. Caption. "A relative or a leader."

Still image from: Dinos From A to Z: A Dino Summary

Still image from: Dinos From A to Z: Classification

Digital illustration shows three brontosauruses lounging in the jungle against a partly cloudy sky. Text reads, “Dinosaurs.”

A cartoon shows a large python wrapping its body and squeezing a small crocodile.

An illustration depicts a pair of reptile like dinosaurs running in a desert. Image credit: Ceri Thomas.

An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.

An illustration of a Daphoenus Demilo.

A cartoon shows the skeletal structure of a giant dinosaur.

A painting depicts scientists comparing Piltdown Man's remains to other species. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward are seen standing together.

An illustration depicts an old shepherd, wearing clothes made from animal leather, sitting on a rock.

An illustration depicts a pair of dinosaurs fighting each other.

An illustration depicts the dinosaur, Coelophysis, with new born Coelophysis in between its beak.

The sculpture, of a dragon sprawled, at the steps of Kinh Thien palace. Caption: Remains of Kinh Thien Palace.

An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.

An illustration of a hyaenodont. Caption: Illustration by Alan Turner and Maurico Anton.

A skull from the fossils of Homo floresiensis, and a rough sketch of the limbs of the fossil remains are presented.

An illustration of a male Woolly mammoth.

Title text reads, "Fossils for Kids," over a digital illustration of various dinosaur skeletons.

A diagram showing the transition from Reptiles (dinosaurs and crocodile-like animal) to Archaeopteryx (feathered animal between a reptile and a bird), to Birds. Caption: between birds and reptiles.

Illustration of a primate standing on two legs. Caption: Ardi is neither a chimp nor is she a human.

Illustration of a four-legged animal standing in shallow water on top of a layer of rock. Caption: Many things must happen for an animal to be fossilized.

Still image from: Museum Access: Best of Prehistoric Times (LA/Chicago)

Street view of the entrance of a large, ornate stone building with 4 Roman-style pillars and wide stairways leading up to it. Several banners advertising different museum displays hang on the building or between pillars.

The front of a large building with animal scenes carved into the cement at the top of it. In front of the staircases leading up to the entrance is a gray statue of 2 large cats crouching with text underneath that reads, "La Brea Tar Pits and Museum."

Two people with tools in their hands in a desert-like setting, digging in a mound of earth. Caption: Searching for these 112 to 98 million-year-old remains,

A woman seated at a desk in a suit jacket surrounded by books and preserved specimens. Inset picture: Bear-like creature - Caption: Beardogs! … They're a thing. As named, they resemble a mash-up for a bear and a dog.

Split image of a small shoot of corn and a fully developed ear of yellow corn. Caption: could be the ancestor of maize.

Fossilized outline of a fish in stone. Caption: and eventually turns to stone.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Dig In to Paleontology

Fossilized dinosaur skeleton still partially encased in rock displayed next to a model of the same dinosaur. Caption: Out of those, only a few are really prepared well.

Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: Prehistoric Bones

illustration of Coelophysis. On screen text, dinosaurs. Caption: Female, Coelophysis lived about 220 million years ago.

Person holding a fossil of a spiral shaped animal. Caption: Hildoceras bifrons is an extinct species of ammonite

A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.

Sarcophagus covered in faded paint. Caption: a male from the 25th dynasty, about 2,700 years ago,

Illustration of large mammals with curving tusks. Caption: and many of his paintings hung with the articulated skeletons

Person holding a taxidermized flying squirrel with legs extended. Caption: As you know, flying squirrels don't fly, they glide.

Person gesturing towards preserved remains of a dinosaur. Caption: This shape tells us that it's a meat-eating dinosaur.

Person running. Caption: This frees our lower back, the lumbar, for movement.

Platypus with a duck-like snout, webbed feet, and a furry body. Caption: They're the craziest things I've seen in my life.

A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.

Illustration of globular organisms with fine hairs projecting from their body. Caption: When they die, their shells become part of the sediment.

Cartoon of a group of large cat-like animals with two protruding fangs. Caption: (narrator) This tells us a little about the life of baby saber-tooths.

Cartoon characters in prehistoric times standing among large dinosaurs. Caption: They're even good mothers.

Collection of sharp tools made from stone. Caption: Stone-tool technology designed to create sharp edges.