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Fossil preparation includes tasks such as excavating, revealing, conserving, and replicating ancient remains and traces of organisms.

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Near-verbatim match to Wikipedia's definition of fossil preparation, corroborated by AMNH's parallel breakdown of the process into excavating, revealing, conserving, and studying stages; replication (casting/molding) is well-documented as a standard technique elsewhere. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.375 clusters=1 claim_tier=everyday] [kind-backfill 2026-09-15: kind=empirical eligibility=high] [harvest 2026-09-23: +1 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->silver indep=0.77 clusters=2]

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