Breadcrumb Home Search Showing results for Language Content type Photo (20) Article (18) Slideshow (6) Lesson Plan (3) Audio (1) Overview (1) Video (1) Article Type Article (8) Personal Perspectives (6) Topics (-) Ancient Seas (50) Extinctions (19) At The Museum (14) Evolution (12) Marine Mammals (11) Extinctions (6) Climate Change (5) History & Cultures (3) Invertebrates (3) Sharks & Rays (3) Temperature & Chemistry (3) Through Time (3) Careers (2) Exploration (2) Reptiles (2) The Seafloor (2) Deep Sea (1) Fish (1) Fishing (1) Human Connections (1) Ice (1) Microbes (1) Plankton (1) Plants & Algae (1) Recreation (1) The Anthropocene (1) Tags Fossils (20) Paleobiology (16) Ancient sea life (15) Smithsonian scientists (12) National Museum of Natural History (11) Whales (11) Geologic periods (8) Scientific illustrations (7) Adaptations (6) Scientists at work (6) Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (5) New discoveries (4) Feeding (3) News (3) Sharks (3) Smithsonian collections (3) Climate Change (2) Geology (2) Maritime history (2) Native people (2) NOAA (2) Technology (2) Women in Science (2) Site Search Sort by RelevanceTitle SortAuthored on Order AscDesc Sort By RelevanceA-ZZ-ANewestOldest Article If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come October 2018 Read the Full Article Photo Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (65 Million Years Ago) September 2011 View Image Article What the Megalodon Left Behind July 2018 Read the Full Article Photo A Mississippian Marine Habitat (359 - 318 Million Years Ago) September 2011 View Image Photo Cambrian Period (542 – 488 Million Years Ago) September 2011 View Image Audio Ediacaran Fossils: One Species at a Time October 2011 Listen to the Audio Photo Carbonate Reef (Cretaceous Period: 145 - 65 Million Years Ago) December 2009 View Image Article Long Before Coral, Mollusks Built the Ocean's Reefs December 2009 Read the Full Article Article Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution March 2015 Read the Full Article Slideshow Foraminifera March 2010 See the Full Slideshow Article Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find May 2012 Read the Full Article Lesson Plan The Puzzle of Ice Age Americans December 2009 Read the Full Overview Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Next page