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Palaeontologists spend their days digging
Dinosaur experts don’t really spend all their time scrabbling around on their hands and knees looking for fossilised teeth, bones and claws. Being a palaeontologist actually means doing all kinds of different jobs.
Visit museums and study fossils
Many, many dinosaurs have already been found, but we don’t know everything about them. So, palaeontologists spend a lot of their time investigating fossils kept in museums. Taking pictures of them and drawing their bones very carefully can help them discover new facts about the animals – even though they might have been kept in a drawer or a cupboard for years!
Watch animals alive today
By studying animals that are alive today, like birds and reptiles, scientists can get a much better idea of how dinosaurs might have behaved around each other.
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X−ray fossils
Sometimes it is very difficult to take all the extra rock off a fossil, so scientists use powerful X-rays to look inside them. This means palaeontologists can look inside a rock and spot the dinosaur’s remains – just like a doctor can use X-rays to see bones inside you at a hospital!
Use computer models and 3D printing
Palaeontologists can use these X-rays to make models of dinosaurs using special computer programmes. Then they can 3D print models and play with them to discover how dinosaurs might have moved all of their bones around when they were alive!