Millions of years of history come together here from fossilized shells, bones, and traces of creatures that once inhabited the Ural region. This lecture will help to view the paleontological collection as a living narrative of the ancient world and understand how scientists reconstruct vanished landscapes and the appearance of long-extinct animals from tiny finds. Paleontology can turn silent discoveries into a captivating story about a world that no longer exists. A fossilized shell, a fragment of bone, or an imprint of an ancient organism is not just a museum item, but a trace of a vast history stretched over millions of years. Such evidence helps to understand who inhabited the Ural region in the distant past, how the nature of the region changed, and how scientists gradually reconstruct the picture of vanished epochs. The lecture by Svetlana Rudolfovna Chistyakova continues the series about the Museum of Nature of the Urals and focuses on its paleontological collection. The most expressive exhibits of the collection will be in the spotlight - from ancient invertebrates to mammoths. This route is especially interesting as it allows one to see the Earth's past on a grand scale: from marine organisms, whose shells and imprints have been preserved in stone, to large animals, whose remains provide insight into later stages of the history of nature. Entertainment in Yekaterinburg is gathered on our website.