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Screenshot from video with the face of a great white shark swimming at the screen.

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Are Sharks Scary?

A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.

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The Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery

Screenshot from video "Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale" showing two scientists digging in the ground for fossils.

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Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale

Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.

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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

Screenshot of opening slide for lecture "Efforts to Protect the Critically Endangered Monk Seal."

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Efforts to Protect the Critically Endangered Monk Seal

Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.

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Endangered Ocean Animals