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How Paleontology Works

Paleontology has a method. Fossils are dated, identified, classified, and argued over using techniques most people never see. How Paleontology Works is the explainer track: how dinosaur fossils are dated, how dig sites get planned, how bone histology turns a rock into a growth record, and how the field actually argues toward an answer. Written by a paleontologist.

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The first explainers in How Paleontology Works are in the writing queue: how fossils are dated, how dig sites get planned, how bone histology actually reads. Browse the rest of the journal or get them in your inbox when they go live.

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