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They may study long-ago creatures some call “mythical,” but paleontologists today are anything but dinosaurs. Instead, at the Jurassic Mile excavation site in Wyoming, we met dynamic and multi-talented scientists searching for a deeper understanding of our planet and its history.
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The Mission Jurassic dig at Jurassic Mile is led by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in partnership with University of Manchester, The Natural History Museum and Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
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Everyone interviewed talked about how they’d been inspired to be scientists at a young age. We heard how their love of the natural world motivated these experts to pursue a career no one thought possible.
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We were at the lower level or “ground floor” of the dig site when we met Dr. Victoria Egerton. She talked excitedly while showing us a tail bone — probably from a sauropod — sticking out of the mudstone. Like other found fossils, it was waiting to be encased in plaster for shipment.
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The 9,000 square-foot area under study represents only a tiny fraction of the Jurassic Mile, a site rich with bones from several species as well as plants, captured in rock thought to be 150 million years old.
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“I know people judge me because I’m young looking and a woman,” she says, “so I just go in with my head held high.” Convinced that the study of dinosaurs is an ideal gateway to science, Dr. Egerton insists, “We have to tell kids you can do this.”