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In this painting, a giant squid engages in a struggle for survival with a sperm whale.
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The Mystery of Ambergris

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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How Do Sea Lions Swim?

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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 narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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Aquatic Locomotion of a Sea Lion

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

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A view of the injured fluke belonging to Phoenix’s mother, Stumpy. It is not known what caused this injury. It possibly could have been an entanglement.
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Stumpy’s Tail

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This may look like a mane of hair, but it’s actually baleen from a North Atlantic right whale.
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Baleen Close Up

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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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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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At STRI, No Whales Yet, But There Are Fossil Sea Cows...

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