Ask the Bones: Practicing “Taphonomy” in Big Bend

from Nature Notes · host Andrew Stuart

Dr. Rachel Laker, of Hanover College in Indiana, specializes in taphonomy, which explores the processes bones undergo between an animal’s death and fossilization. Big Bend National Park is one site of her research.

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