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Dig It: Field Museum & Global Kids Team Up to Send City Teens on Virtual Fossil Dig

at 12:32 pm on October 30, 2009 • Leave a comment

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Teens in Chicago and New York went digging for fossils in Zambia this summer, without leaving home, thanks to a technology enhanced science camp run by Chicago’s Field Museum in partnership with Global Kids. Watch the video produced by Ben Wolff.

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