Fossils in our collections, including many from the North Olympic Peninsula, can give us clues about animals and plants that lived here millions of years ago. Students discuss ways that ancient life could be preserved in fossils as they prepare “mold and cast” marine shell impressions they'll take home with them later.
They examine actual fossils of creatures that lived at different different times in the earth's history and in different environments, comparing them with animals and plants alive today and using evidence in the fossils to imagine the kinds of environments they lived in.
