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The First Filter Feeder

Today, filter feeders like clams, sponges, krill, baleen whales, fishes, and many...

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Mangrove Island Clear-Cut for Tourism

This mangrove island in the Pelican Cays, Belize, was clear-cut and filled with...

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Description of Smithsonian Field Stations

These Smithsonian field stations enable scientists worldwide to conduct long-term...

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Mangroves Range

A map that shows the location of mangroves throughout the world. They are mainly...

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...

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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...

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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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Eocene Whales and Penguins Off the Coast of Peru

Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing three...

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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...

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Former Mangrove Forest

This shrimp farm in southern Belize is just one example of how mangroves worldwide...

When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

More recently than you might think, say scientists who scoured the fossil...

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Smithsonian Research Stations

Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues are investigating important questions...