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A drawing of Phoenix from the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog documents her callosity pattern and other identifying marks.
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Who’s That Whale?

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Blue whale skull being installed at National Museum of Natural History.
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When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
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Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

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Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
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Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree

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a painting of a ship on a plate of baleen
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The Story of Stashed Whale Baleen

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An artist sketches the preserved bones of a specimen in the Smithsonian's collection.
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Flippers, Jawbones, and Blowholes: Marine Specimens Inspire Artists

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A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

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Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

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The 1903 blue whale in the Natural History Museum
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A Century of Whales at the Smithsonian

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax: What You Can Learn From Strange Collections

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
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A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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