To help you with the process you will have customized tools at your disposal, such as shovel, chisel, brush, hammer etc. Fossils often are encased with rock, so you will need to remove it. Free fossils from the surrounding rock is the first stage of the cleaning process. During cleaning you have to be very careful and try to avoid the damage, because the precious bones are extraordinary delicate!
If you are not careful enough, you may cause damage and in this case you will be able to put the fragments of damaged bones back together like a 3D jigsaw puzzle! But keep in mind that the preparation process will take more time in that case.
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