Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes Office it offers hands-on STEM exploration

it offers hands-on STEM exploration while teaching anatomy in a fun and safe way

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Use the tools and equipment to analyze evidence and solve the case

Includes a pre-started dinosaur body so you can skip the most challenging first steps and start stitching right away

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Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes Office it offers hands-on STEM explorationAn investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem solving on which scientists rely. Those awe inspiring dinosaur skeletons on display in museums do not spring fully assembled from the earth. Technicians known as preparators have painstakingly removed the fossils from rock, repaired broken bones, and reconstructed missing pieces to create them. These specimens are foundational