David Temple, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, works in a lab on May 1, 2024, in Houston, Texas. Movies make audiences believe that dinosaur fossils are dug up from the ground intact, Temple says. "Every fossil ever found needs some degree of curation, some degree of restoration, some degree of consolidation, because even the act of getting it out of the ground -- it's destructive," he says. (Photo by Francois PICARD / AFP) (Photo by FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)