World travel, summers in the outdoors and a first look at some of the oldest bones in the world. The perks of paleontology are many, as Discovery News' James Williams finds out.
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World travel, summers in the outdoors and a first look at some of the oldest bones in the world. The perks of paleontology are many, as Discovery News' James Williams finds out.
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