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What happens when paleontologists find a fossil?
6 minutes Posted Apr 16, 2025 at 8:00 am.
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Make no bones about it – fossils are super cool! But what do you do if you find a fossil? We asked Jingmai O’Connor, the Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, to help us find  the answer.


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