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Kyra Mauntel, a junior geology major from New Haven, Missouri, uses a brush to clean a fossil bone inside Nebraska Hall. Her work preparing fossils at Nebraska helped build the skills and experience she later applied during a two-week international research project in Paraguay.

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Nebraska helps Mauntel turns childhood passion into future in paleontology

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Kyra Mauntel, a junior geology major from New Haven, Missouri, uses a brush to clean a fossil bone inside Nebraska Hall. Her work preparing fossils at Nebraska helped build the skills and experience she later applied during a two-week international research project in Paraguay.

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