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Some may be (especially if they are in cabinets behind glass) but most of the time plaster casts are taken of the actual bones and these are then used to make articulated skeletons (you would not want to drill holes in or damage the real fossil bones because one day they may be needed for further study).

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They are usually made of plaster.

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