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an elephant seal with a tracker
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Citizens of the High Seas

In a world where land is partitioned into countries with defined borders, the ocean...
August 2019
A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
Article

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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...
August 2016
A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
Article

Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

Large whales are notoriously hard to study. Except when rising to breathe, they...
March 2015
The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

Traveling aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a 173-year-old whaling ship on its 38th...
July 2014
Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014
A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) are the most abundant baleen whale in the...
February 2013
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

After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico
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Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

How do we know where ocean animals swim day and night? Scientists are getting...
May 2012
A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
Personal Perspectives

Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...
March 2012
An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...
January 2012

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