a scanners is a machine what copies an image to the computer so you can edit it or send it to a freind
It is on your printer. If you can lift the top up that is it. If you cant, you don't have a scanner on your printer, so go to staples or something to scan whatever you need to scan.
Almost any all-in-one printer you buy today will run on the Leopard operating system. Whatever printer you buy just make sure is Mac compatible which almost all of them are. I personally used a Canon in MP620 on Leopard and it worked perfectly. The same all-in-one also works on lion and mountain lion.
A paleontologist uses items such as: shovels chisels picks brushes to brush away dirt drills magnifying glass computers fancy machinery to find out the age of the fossil, time period, calcium levels Water to rinse the dirt off after you've brushed it would be useful too.