How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
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You can aspire to great things in life, but how about in death? Could you be one of the world’s greatest fossils many years from now? To ensure being found by a future paleontologist, you'll need to die in a highly specific way (think within tree sap or on the bottom of the ocean floor), and nature takes care of the rest. Phoebe A. Cohen details the steps your body must take to find future fame as a fossil.
Additional Resources for you to Explore
To
learn more about hominid fossils and those who study them, check out this page from UC Berkeley.For
some good classroom activities on fossilization check out these activities hosted by UC
Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology. PaleoPortal is a great website to
learn more about the fossils and geology of North America. You can find out
about fossils in your state, and learn about how fossil groups have changed
through time. Brian
Switek’s blog Laelaps has great information
on new paleontology research, especially dinosaurs and other larger
vertebrates.For a more in-depth view of
the fossil record, check out the Paleobiology
Database, a public database of published fossil data from around the world.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Phoebe A. Cohen
- Animator Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Joshua Holden
