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a painting of a ship on a plate of baleen
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A Ship Portrait on Baleen

A painting of a whaling ship on a plate of baleen. ...
A worker mixes plaster near a dead whale
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Mixing Plaster for Whale

Scollick mixing plaster while the other men cast the whale's head up on the...
A view of the blue whale model in the Life in the Sea exhibit hall
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Life in the Sea

The new blue whale model, as seen from the entrance to the “Life in the Sea”...
a sculptor works on a huge blue whale model in scaffolding
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Blue Whale Model

Taxidermist/model maker John Widener working on the new blue whale model, 1962. ...
workers work on the blue whale cast
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A Whale for the Fair

Workers prepare the giant blue whale cast for presentation at the St. Louis...
the view of a whale cast from the tail end
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The First Cast

The world’s first full cast of a whale, part of the Smithsonian’s display at...
The Antarctic minke whale is the only baleen whale found in the icy waters of the Antarctic.
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Antarctic Minke Whale

The elegant Antarctic minke whale feeds on krill (tiny crustaceans) during the...
Stephanocyathus (A.) spiniger, a solitary, deep-water stony coral species, has six long spines that slow it from sinking into soft substrates.
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Solitary Deep-water Corals

These corals from the Smithsonian collections are Stephanocyathus (A.)...
X-ray image of a slender snipe eel
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X-Ray Image of a Slender Snipe Eel

The elongated body, characteristic long and narrow snout, and small teeth make the...
Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program
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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s...
Curator and Research Scientist Lynne Parenti with student Shao-i Wang on a moped with fish collection gear
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Lynne Parenti NMNH Fishes Curator

Lynne Parenti, Curator and Research Scientist, Smithsonian National Museum of...
Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Steve Cairns named and described this deep-sea coral species, Stephanocyathus paliferus, now preserved at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Corals at the Smithsonian

Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Steve Cairns named and described this deep-sea coral...

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