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Location of dinosaur bones

Author:      David Wright
Text:        How do paleontologists know where to look for dinosaur bones?

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Author:      psych
Text:        A couple of ways are to look in soil layers that are the age of 
the kind of bones one is looking for.  Another way is to look in a soil layer 
in an area where other bones have been found previously.

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