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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale

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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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a wet river otter face
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Fecal Insights: How River Otters Help Us Understand Parasites and Ecosystem Health

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Narwhals with their long unicorn-like tusks.
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Native Knowledge of the Narwhal

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Walruses use sea ice as platforms on which to nurse their young and launch their dives.
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Walrus: An Arctic Mammal in Peril?

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Hundreds to thousands of tiny crustaceans live on each right whale, eating algae that settles on their skin.
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Whale Lice

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Narwhals with their long unicorn-like tusks.
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Narwhals Breaching

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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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

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Smithsonian scientists race the tide the excavate an ancient whale fossil entombed in rock
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Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!

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A Bryde's whale catches a meal
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The Case of the Mystery Whale

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