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Hi, i’m high school student in 12th grade. I’m currently working on a senior exit project, and I chose palentology as my career choice. I would like to do an interview with a paleontologist just asking a couple of questions like: what is your favorite thing about the job, what inspired you to be a paleontologist, how long did you have to attend school to become a paleontologist, etc. An interview over email or even over the website would suffice. Thank you.

Hi All, I am a faculty member at a university, teaching archaeology, CRM, and anthropology. Quite often we receive emails from members of the state asking that we identify artifacts. The following note came to me recently. I've attached the associated pictures. I would be grateful if someone could help me out, so that I could provide some good information to the student. At a glance, I'm guessing maybe a fossilized tooth or mouth plate, but I little to no experience with fossils. Thanks for any help. Original Email... Hi, I am Bryce XXXX, I am a freshman at XXXXX High School and I found this object that I have no idea what it is. I was a t Myrtle Beach last summer and I found this thing, I was wondering if there was any one who could help me identify what this thing is. I have attached some photos of this thing and if needed I can send it to you. Thank You ~Bryce XXXX

Hi I am recently retired after 40 years at the same job. I recently purchased a trowel and a prospecting screen and been hitting the popular sites in the Homdel, NJ area. My wife and I have been having a good time doing this and we have found some interesting finds. We are real low on the learning curve but are quick learners!

Hello all! Just joined up, I study earth science and anthropology at the University of South Dakota. My interest in fossil only started a few years ago while I was visiting college, and I've been blessed to work in prep labs in South Dakota as well as field work for some ranchers. I spent the summer working for a museum in Wyoming, excavating the Morrison formation.

Hi all, I'm Charlie, a student from the Netherlands, who has been interested in fossils for a long time. Curious to learn more about them!

Following the first suggestion, I want to present myself. Hi, my name is Marco (the english "Mark"), I am nearly 19 years old and I live in middle\northern italian peninsula, in a small independend republic called San Marino. I am attending the last year at the scientific high school (here it's 5 years), and my current plan for the future is to study biology or earth's sciences at the Alma Mater University of Bologna, with a final specialization in vertebrate paleontology. Since I was a child I had a powerful passion regarding dinosaurs and paleontology in general, and fortunately the area where I live is very rich in fossils of Miocenic marine fauna. Just a few chilometers away from here there are abandoned quarries with abundant Cretaceous fossils, where a partial mosasaur rostrum was discovered a few years ago. I have a really vast collection of fossils that I will absolutely have to show you, both local fossils discovered by myself and more exotic ones, like dinosaur bones from Morocco and carboniferous ferns. My most common threads will be related to hearing different opinions about identifying strange or partial specimens. Thank you in advance! Mark

Hi there! Im a student and really could use some help here! Im doing a phenogram on the similarity of 8 vertebrate, Carnivora skulls, and I dont understand how they work in terms of the number/degree of similarity... on this diagram, the Red Fox seems to have the highest degree of similarity, but to what? All of the skulls? Does this mean the one with the lowest number has the lowest degreee of similarity? Thanks soooo much!