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Create a vertical 3:4 educational poster designed as an open geological specimen cabinet, using five irregular museum drawers pulled out to different depths to explain how fossils form and are later discovered. Let the cabinet itself become the information layout, with each drawer representing one stage in the fossil process rather than a standard timeline or equal rectangular cards. Vary the drawer sizes, depths, and contents so the composition feels like a realistic museum collections display, with shallow 3D depth, archival labels, rock slabs, sediment layers, tools, and partial fossil impressions distributed naturally across the cabinet.
Show five clear stages across the drawers: an organism dies in a setting where burial is possible; the remains are rapidly buried by sediment; more layers build up and compress older deposits; minerals preserve or replace hard parts; and erosion later exposes the fossil for discovery. Keep the fossil evidence realistic and gradual, avoiding any implication that a complete skeleton forms instantly. Include believable geological materials and layered strata, with warm limestone, shale gray, clay red, parchment cream, and muted brass handles. Keep the setting bright and archival rather than dark or cinematic.
Print the title “HOW FOSSILS FORM” on an archival drawer label, and add the smaller museum note “Most living things never become fossils.” Integrate five large stage labels with clean, readable typography:
“1. DEATH” — “An organism dies in a place where burial is possible.”
“2. RAPID BURIAL” — “Sediment covers the remains and slows decay.”
“3. MORE LAYERS” — “New sediment presses older layers together.”
“4. PRESERVATION” — “Minerals may fill spaces or replace hard parts.”
“5. EXPOSURE” — “Erosion can reveal the fossil much later.”
Also include one smaller special drawer devoted to fossil types, showing a mold fossil, a cast fossil, and a trace fossil, with the large note “Not every fossil is a bone.” Use realistic geological specimens, clean museum-storage design, elegant archival labeling, and clear educational hierarchy. Keep all text large and legible, avoid tiny specimen numbers, avoid mixing unrelated rock layers carelessly, and make sure the poster does not imply that soft tissue is usually preserved, that all fossils are millions of years old, or that pressure alone explains every fossil.