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HMNH New England’s Prehistoric Past
Hi, my name is Danny. I go to the [|Amigos School] in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I am doing this Wiki because I want the other people to learn what I have learned during a lab visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The museum is part of Harvard University and has a lot of fossils and information on our prehistoric past of New England.



We are so close the [|Harvard Museum of Natural History] that it only takes us 15 minutes to walk there. Our school is next to the gigantic Harvard University campus. At the museum we did a lab. The name of the lab was “New England’s Pre-historic Past”. It was about how New England started out attached to what is now Africa. We learned that there is evidence of lots of fossils showing that this area was a sea between 400-600 million years ago (MYA). The fossils that we saw were called horn coral, crinoid, brachiopod, and trilobite. These organisms used to live under the sea. Because they were found in New Engalnd means that New England used to be a sea.

The following process makes fossils:
1.A fish dies and sinks to the bottom 2.The fish gets covered in sediment 3. The fish’s body decomposes leaving bones 4. The minerals in the ocean and sediment replace the minerals in the bones, turning the bone to stone. This whole thing takes thousands of years to happen. We saw evidence of volcanoes in the region. We looked at samples of basalt and granite. I hope that people check out the evidence of New England’s Prehistoric Past when they go the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

This is a summary of our lab.
At the Harvard Museum i whent back in time to discover what Massachusets was like 500 million years ago. I studied rocks, fossils and living animals that provide the clues to ancient oceans volcanoes, and ice ages. I left this lab with a better understanding of what New England looked like, who lived here and how scientist know this.