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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History
400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones...
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Purple Sea Urchin
This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and...
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A Baby Moray Eel, or a Really Small Adult?
This is an unidentified moray eel, collected from 650 feet off the coast of...
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a New Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes living belugas and narwhals, are...
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Dugong Feeding
Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert
Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of...
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Panama Expedition Success
Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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Excavating the Fossil
Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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Dislodging the Fossil
Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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Securing the Fossil
Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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Fish Skeleton Discovery
Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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