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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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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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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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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This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
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Whale Collections

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

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The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms.
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Marine Parasites: Crazy…and Really Cool!

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Smithsonian Scientists Dig a Trench Around a squalodontid Skull
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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

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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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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 unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Ocean Objects of Wonder

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Two Southern Resident killer whales.
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When Killer Whales Hunt the King of Salmon

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