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Paleobiology
Science & Technology
A:
- Aeronautics
- Agriculture
- Aircraft
- Animals
- Anthropology & Archaeology
- Astronomy
B:
- Biodiversity
- Birds
- Botany
- Bugs
- Butterflies
C:
- Cars
- Chemistry
- Clocks & Watches
- Computers
- Conservation
(of environment)
- Conservation
(of items)
D-E:
- Diamonds
- Dinosaurs
- Ecology
- Electricity
- Engineering
F:
- Fishes
- Fossils
G-H:
- Gems
- Geology
- Global Climate Change
- Health & Medicine
- Horticulture
- Human Evolution
I-J:
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Insects
- Inventors & Innovation
K-M:
- Mammals
- Marine Animals
- Mathematics
- Medical Sciences
- Mineral Sciences
- Mollusks
O-P:
- Oceans
- Paleobiology
- Pandas
- Planets
- Printing Technology
Q-R:
- Railroads
S-Z:
- Ships
- Space History
- Telephones
- Transportation
- Volcanoes
- Zoology

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Paleobiology Department of the Natural History Musem
Paleobiologists at the National Museum of Natural History investigate many areas of study, including how long-term physical changes of ancient global geography and climate have affected the evolution of plants and animals, how ecosystems have responded to these changes, and how these responses have affected today's patterns of biodiversity
 
Geologic Time - the Story of a Changing Earth
 
Dinosaurs
Blast from the Past! Blast from the Past!
Dinosaur extinction
Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!
Learn about the Smithsonian's dinosaurs
Photographs from the Dinosaur Hall
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Top 10 Misconceptions about Dinosaurs
Test your knowledge of dinosaurs
Blast from the Past! Triceratops
The first digital dinosaur, existing accurately in the computer, and able to be shared as easily as email
 
Fossils
Life of a Vertebrate Fossil Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
Follow what paleontologists do in each stage in the life of a vertebrate fossil
Shark Tooth Key Shark Tooth Key
How to sort out and identify fossil shark teeth (PDF)
Strange Creatures: A Burgess Shale Fossil Sampler Strange Creatures: A Burgess Shale Fossil Sampler
More than 1/2 billion years old, these fossils preserve an intriguing glimpse of early animal life on Earth
Giant Fossil Scale Tree Giant Fossil Scale Tree
One of the largest plant fossils ever collected, weighing more than 16 tons
 
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Natural History Museum
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Research
Department of Paleobiology
Investigates fossils as once living organisms
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