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the skull of a mosasaur
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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

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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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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

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An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

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A rendering of an ocean scene as it may have looked 65 million years ago, when an astroid fell to Earth and triggered a mass extinction event.
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Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (65 Million Years Ago)

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A shark tooth embedded in a bone
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What the Megalodon Left Behind

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Illustration of a four-legged proto-whale with webbed feet.
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Early Whale with Webbed Feet

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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

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A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

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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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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.
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Foraminifera

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