How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
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You can aspire to great things in life, but how about in death? Could you be one of the world’s greatest fossils many years from now? To ensure being found by a future paleontologist, you'll need to die in a highly specific way (think within tree sap or on the bottom of the ocean floor), and nature takes care of the rest. Phoebe A. Cohen details the steps your body must take to find future fame as a fossil.
Some types of materials made by organisms get fossilized more easily than others, and some places and environments on Earth are more likely to preserve fossils than others. How might these biases affect our view of life through time?
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- Educator Phoebe A. Cohen
- Animator Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Joshua Holden
