Unwrapping history with Virginia Tech paleontologists
This is our fossil and unwrapping party. An annual event where we do community science, and we have everybody come in and be paleontologists and curators for the evening. We open this up to, we say, everybody from age 7 to 107, but there's definitely some younger ones here too. I found a lot of teeth and bones, I learned about phytosaurs teeth. And I learned about where the teeth come from and where the bones come from. And I got to make labels and put them in little boxes. Yeah. It was fun. This is in conjunction with the Museum of Geosciences. Supporting museums is so important because they are our libraries. They are the keepers of all of these materials that are part of everyone's history, its history of the earth. Practicing your scientific communication is something that we all need to do. So we get the students into this event so they can practice being teachers and talking about their experiences if they came in the field with us, or if they've taken classes where they've learned some of this material. Science is something collaborative and it's something that everybody can do.
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