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The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People
Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils
Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils