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VA Museum of Natural History on Instagram: "Next time you visit the museum, you may be lucky enough to see VMNH Paleontology Research Technician Lucy Treado and VMNH Research Volunteer Alicia Lantz working inside the museum's Elster Foundation Vertebrate Paleontology Lab​ as they continue​ the difficult project of preparing the fossil remains of an ancient cave cat that will be used for future research and eventual display inside the museum's exhibit galleries. Affectionately named "Petra", the skeleton laid undisturbed deep inside a cave in western Virginia for many centuries until a field crew of nearly a dozen experts led by former VMNH Assistant Curator of Paleontology (and current Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Dr. Alex Hastings extracted the f
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