I Dig Sloths! at UI Museum of Natural History

Preparing a fossil thin-section
Matthew Wortel gluing the embedded bone sample to a glass slide. He uses a special epoxy glue that cures rapidly under U-V light. Here he's working out air bubbles that might otherwise interfere with viewing the finished slide.

UI Museum of Natural History
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