Paleontologists learned pretty quick that if you try to move giant, heavy, yet fragile specimens across many miles, you're going to have a bad time. It also turns out it was a bit of a
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Paleontologists learned pretty quick that if you try to move giant, heavy, yet fragile specimens across many miles, you're going to have a bad time. It also turns out it was a bit of a process to figure out the best way to move a fossil after it was out of the ground. So: the history of fossil jacketing!