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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...

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Reflections on the Successful Search for the Giant Squid

I have been at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History since...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...

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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

The evolution of whales represents one of the great stories in macroevolution. It's...

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Fossil 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 team...

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At STRI, No Whales Yet, But There Are Fossil Sea Cows...

Jorge and I arrived in Panama City around 3 pm this afternoon, and took a taxi to...

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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...

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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

When he was 10 years old, Stephen Cairns lived in Cuba where he kept a collection...

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

Salmon are one of the most widely loved varieties of seafood in the world. A...