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Blue whale skull being installed at National Museum of Natural History.
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When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

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ichthyosaurs frolic in the waves
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Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales

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An archaeologist arranges a deep-sea core.
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Sediment Cores

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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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An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
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The Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery

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An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Sea Level Rise

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Mistaken Point New Foundland
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Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time

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a group of ichthyosaurs swims at the ocean's surface
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Mystery of An Ichthyosaur Graveyard Revealed

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Proterozoic Eon, featuring a creature that resembles a jellyfish and other organisms.
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Ediacaran Community, Proterozoic Eon (2,500 - 542 Million Years Ago)

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An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
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The Archean Eon (4,600 – 2,500 Million Years Ago)

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