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21: Paleontologist Evelyn Vollmer, Figuring out the Age of the Earth, and What Defines a Dinosaur

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What Is Taphonomy?

Paleontology is a branch of paleontology that deals with the process of fossilization. There's like a biological Process and story happening there more than just like a single that's called taphonomy. A set of vertebra from a sauropod in Wyoming that I got to see that Basically his back broke and all of these vertebra fused together and that's called a pathology so you can actually see that this animal was able to heal itself.

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