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Just the Bones, Please!
Amy began her career studying sculpture, and then moved on to collecting skeletons. One of her first jobs for a museum was to remove the flesh from animal specimens that had died in zoos, washed up on the beach, or were killed on the road. The museum was gathering a collection of skeletons to study and only wanted the bones. To get rid of the flesh, Amy would carefully cut away the meat and then feed the remaining flesh on the bone to a colony of meat-eating beetles. As the clean skeletons emerged, Amy would see how beautiful the bones were and how they fit together. This experience helped Amy in her current job as a fossil preparator at the American Musem of Natural History. In order to uncover dinosaur bones, she must know how the dinosaur's bones once fit together. Dinosaur skeletons are not always very different from those of modern animals, but they are made of rock!