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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation

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A Squalodontid Success

June 2011

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Screenshot from video "Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale" showing two scientists digging in the ground for fossils.

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Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale

June 2011

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.

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Arm Bone Fossil of an Ancient Toothed Whale

May 2012