# What happens when paleontologists find a fossil?

An episode of [Moment Of Um](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1603857929), 16 Apr 2025, 7:12.

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Make no bones about it – fossils are super cool! But what do you do if you find a fossil? We asked Jingmai O’Connor, the Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s buried in your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help dig up the answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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