Dino Detectives

Identifying Fossils

Calling all junior paleontologists! We need your help to identify the latest fossilized find.

Become part of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History team, working together to uncover clues from the Cretaceous Period. By comparing your evidence with existing fossil records and known facts about modern wildlife, you’ll soon discover who this animal is and what its habitat was like more than 75 million years ago.

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Ohio’s Learning Standards 

Grade 2

Life Science – Interactions Within Habitats 

  • All organisms alive today result from their ancestors, some of which may be extinct. Not all kinds of organisms that lived in the past are represented by living organisms today. 

Grade 3

Life Science – Behavior, Growth, and Changes 

  • Individuals of the same kind of organism differ in their inherited traits. These differences give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing. 

Grade 4

Life Science – Earth's Living History 

  • Fossils can be compared to one another and to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences. 

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