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What's the Big Idea About Paleontology?
Most living things never become fossils. And most of the fossils created will never be found. Learn more about these extremely rare—and valuable—records of the past.
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Highlights

What's the Big Idea About Paleontology?

Fighting Dinos

Face to Fossil

Drawing Dinos

Buried Bones

Layers of Time

Beyond T. rex

Create Your Own Timeline

Going Gobi

Make Your Own Dino Stationery

What Do You Know about Paleontology?

Meet the PaleontOLogists

Mesozoic Museum

Paleo Poll

Paleontology Books

Meet the OLogist: Mark Norell

Finding Fossils

Ask a Scientist

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