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Native Knowledge of the Narwhal

The narwhal is an elusive mammal. During the winter months they feed in the deep...

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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...

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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health

Solving environmental problems often starts with small groups of people working to...

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A Squalodontid Success

On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...

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Squalicorax Shark Fossil

During the late Cretaceous period, Kansas was covered by a vast sea. There,...

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Lynne Parenti NMNH Fishes Curator

Lynne Parenti, Curator and Research Scientist, Smithsonian National Museum of...

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Photographing Captured Animals

To document fragile organisms found in the Arctic, scientist Kevin Raskoff builds...

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Celebrating in Washington

Members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the September 2008 opening of the...

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The Puzzle of Ice Age Americans

Students describe alternative theories for arrival of first humans to come to...

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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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More Than a Century of Smithsonian Marine Science

Models of a giant squid and an octopus hang over display cases in the "Lower...