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Hi, I'm Ross MacPhee . I'm a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I travel all over the world to places like Antarctica to collect fossil evidence. I hope this evidence will help me piece together what Earth was like millions of years ago.
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Ross MacPhee, © Ross MacPhee/AMNH; all other photos, © Jim McMahon/Scholastic.