Talking Science: Fossils
Find how fossils offer up clues about early Earth. Watch the video, view the slideshow, plus read articles from Science World, the award-winning science magazine, and check out online activities.
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Paleontologist Ross MacPhee is the curator of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Find out about his favorite places in the museum, what he's working on now, and his favorite flavor of ice cream.
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Ross MacPhee
Hi, I'm Ross MacPhee. I'm a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I travel all over the world to places like Antarctica to collect fossil evidence. I hope this evidence will help me piece together what Earth was like millions of years ago.
Photo Credit: Clare Flemming
Maps: © Jim McMahon/Scholastic
Articles
by Andrew Klein
Science World | Paleontologist Ross MacPhee is on the hunt for anything that might teach us more about the geography of ancient Earth.
Fossil Record
by Alfred Fischer
Grolier Online |
Explore the history, discovery, and classification of fossils through out the Earth's evolution.
An Ancient Find
by Gail Hennessey
Scholastic News Online |
January 22,2007
Gavin Sutter, 8, of California, recently brought some very special items to his school for show and tell. The second-grader revealed 15-million-year-old fossilized bones that he had discovered while on a trip to Nevada.
Activities
Learn all about dinosaurs. Build your own dinosaur, publish a "dinosaur write," and take the real or make-believe quiz.
