VMNH’s remote fossil lesson separates evidence from an explanation

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A mixed fossil deposit

VMNH’s Unsolved Mysteries distance-learning lesson examines marine-animal and land-mammal fossils deposited together. Its description uses a recreated bone bed and a Fall Line site north of Richmond to explore an ancient shoreline 14 million years ago.

Arrange the connection

The museum is in Martinsville; the lesson’s fossil geography is elsewhere. Educators connect by two-way video and arrange the connection in advance.

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