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  • Center for Chinese Fossil Discoveries

    This story has a video. Our Fascination with Dinosaurs and Other Fossils

    September 15, 2009

    Similar to the fossils they study, it took some time for David Bottjer, professor of earth and biological sciences in USC College, and Luis Chiappe, director and curator of the National History Museum, to establish the… more>

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    tags: biological science, dinosaurs, earth science, fossils, museum, natural sciences, paleontology

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