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World map during last ice age
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Ice Age Map of the World

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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

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Color illustration of an ancient bivalve.
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Elevator Rudists

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Rudist clams are mollusks that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
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Rudist Clams

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A close up of a sediment core.
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Sediment Core Close-Up

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An Illustration of small tentacled fossils.
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Ancient Entoproct Community

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An illustration of the megalodon shark.
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Ancient Giant Megatooth Shark

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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

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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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Squalicorax shark fossil from the Smithsonian
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Squalicorax Shark Fossil

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A fossil of the ancient shark Falcatus falcatus
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The Ancient Shark Falcatus falcatus

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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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