Life began in the ocean around 3.5 billion years ago and as evolution progressed, many species went extinct -- and some left behind fossils -- as others appeared. And even now, the ocean hasn't stopped changing as evolution continues and humans leave their mark.
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BLOG POSTNew Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South AmericaThe evolution of whales represents one of the great stories in macroevolution. It's a narrative that has mostly benefitted from an extraordinary series of fossils recovered from rocks around...MORE STORIES |
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TIMELINE MORE STORIESTop Predators TimelineWhat makes a top predator? Razor-sharp teeth? Speed? Strength? Size? Who is t... |
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ARTICLE MORE STORIESLong Before Coral, Mollusks Built the Ocean's ReefsAbout 100 million years ago, during the heyday of the dinosaurs, reefs were buil... |
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BLOG POST MORE STORIESFossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!Jorge and I packed up the night we arrived in Panama with Aaron O'Dea and his te... |
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scannerMay 21, 2012 - 1:23PMAfter a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate and remove, not just one, but two skeletons of an early "toothed" baleen whale from the rocks near the Carmanah Lighthouse. All told, it took... |
May 11, 2012 - 9:58AM
Editor's note: Read Nick's first blog post about "toothed" baleen whales to...
May 7, 2012 - 3:34PM
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups...
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Did Whale Evolution Go Backwards?Whales swim, but their ancestors walked. Whales are mammals (like us) whose ancestors lived on land. Life probably began in... |
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STORIES
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Shark Teeth Tell Great White Shark Evolution Story
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Did Whale Evolution Go Backwards?
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
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Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada
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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner
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Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America
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At STRI, No Whales Yet, But There Are Fossil Sea Cows...
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So You Think You're Smarter Than a Cephalopod?
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Long Before Coral, Mollusks Built the Ocean's Reefs
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
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Top Predators Timeline
AUDIO / VIDEO
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Evolution of Whales Animation
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The Last Wild Places In the Ocean Webcast
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Foraminifera on the Seafloor
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Submersible Collects Deep-Sea Corals
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Really Small Fry: Shifting Baselines in Marine Fish Stocks
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Smithsonian Paleobiologist Brian Huber
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Video of the Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau)
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Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale
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Changing Tides - Brave New Ocean
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Visit the Line Islands with Reef Ecologist Dr. Stuart Sandin
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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time
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Dr. Jan Backman, Marine Geologist
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Receding Ice Cover
IMAGE GALLERIES
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Foraminifera
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A Squalodontid Success
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Rudist Reefs
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The Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery
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Shark Ancestors
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Deep Ocean Diversity
PHOTOS
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Ediacaran Community, Proterozoic Eon (2,500 - 542 Million Years Ago)
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Ammonite
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Dislodging the Fossil
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Illustration of a New Fossil Whale, Bohaskaia monodontoides
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Bringing sediment core on ship
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Early Whale with Webbed Feet
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Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (65 Million Years Ago)
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Arm Bone Fossil of an Ancient Toothed Whale
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Arctic Sea Ice Extent Graph
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Cambrian Period (542 – 488 Million Years Ago)
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Panama Expedition Success
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An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated
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The Whale Family Tree
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Ancient Great White Shark



































