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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.

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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...

This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and can be found in groups of hundreds.

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Purple Sea Urchin

This purple urchin Paleopneustes cristatus is seldom seen by itself, and...

An unidentified moray eel held in researcher's hands.

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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...

Smithsonian researchers with fossil whale skulls from the group Monodontidae

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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a New Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes living belugas and narwhals, are...

dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea

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Dugong Feeding

Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...

A photo of an arid ocean cliff in Chile's Atacama Desert with the ocean below.

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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...

A Smithsonian scientist with a whale fossil he excavated

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Panama Expedition Success

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

Scientists remove remove the whale fossil plaster jacket from the r

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Excavating the Fossil

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

a squalodontid skull is dislodged after a plaster jacket is applied

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Dislodging the Fossil

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

Smithsonian scientists apply a plaster bandage cap to a block of rock containing fossils

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Securing the Fossil

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

Complete Fish Skeleton Discovered by Smithsonian Scientists in Panama

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Fish Skeleton Discovery

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

Ancient sea cow vertebra found in the Gatun Formation in Central America, Panama

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Ancient Sea Cow Vertebra

A fossil vertebra that a Smithsonian researcher's mother found while prospecting in...