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Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 12: Cachaça on the Rocks

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 14: The Benefits of Local Knowledge

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 13: Skeleton!

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 8: Finding Fossils from Space

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 5: Ex Libro Lapidum, Historia Mundi

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 6: Sharks Patrol These Waters

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 3: Permian Paleontology of the Parnaíba Basin

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 4: Paleontology in Brazil: Meet the Team

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Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 2: The Puzzling Question of Therapsid Origins

Calibrating phylogenies: are we using the right fossils?

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2011 REU Intern Gregor-Fausto Siegmund

Fossil Vertebrates

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Two young visitors reach down to touch the foot of Máximo, a cast of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. The foot is raised on a black platform and the two visitors learn forward to touch the front of the foot.

Máximo the Titanosaur

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Jingmai O'Connor

William Simpson

Akiko Shinya

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Ken Angielczyk

Constance Van Beek

Field Museum acquires fossil of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat its veggies

UV light and CT scans helped scientists unlock hidden details in a perfectly-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx

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Fossil Vertebrates - History

Fossil Vertebrate Collections

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