Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
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2004-11-03
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Virginia Tech. University Relations
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Members of the general public look to museums for the best examples of ancient life í¢•À_•À_åäóù the biggest dinosaur, the nicest fossils of plants and bugs. Increasingly, researchers are looking to museum collections to answer questions about what lived on earth millions of years ago and how life evolved.