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• Fossil Hunter

  $3
  • The amount that actually adds up. Almost everything this site knows came from someone who went out, found something, and wrote it down carefully. No matter how small, when you add up the bones they create the big picture!
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• Field Researcher

  $8
  • Enough to change what the site can afford rather than only keeping it upright. Some of the databases we read meter their traffic, and we run into those limits on a busy day. This is the tier that decides whether it keeps reading them, and how much of the fossil record it can hold in cache instead of asking a research database for the same answer twice.
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• Curator

  $25
  • At this level you are paying for the time rather than the servers: the week spent working out that the database files the same animal under two different names, or that a photograph had been credited to the wrong person for months. That work never shows up as a feature. It is the difference between a site that looks right and one that is right.
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