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Submersible Collects Deep-Sea Corals

Come along as scientist Dr. Brendan Roark narrates a submersible dive to collect...
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 14:07
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

On a beach in PiƱa, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

Large whales are notoriously hard to study. Except when rising to breathe, they...
March 2015
Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
Smithsonian Scientists Dig a Trench Around a squalodontid Skull
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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...
June 2011

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