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

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Smithsonian Scientists Dig a Trench Around a squalodontid Skull
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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

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serrations from sharks on a fossilized whalebone
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Bite Marks From the Past

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A fossil imprint of Ottoia prolifica.
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Ottoia prolifica

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

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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 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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Illustration of Opabinia with five eyes and what look like scales.
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Opabinia

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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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Rudist Reefs

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Globotruncana falsostuarti -- a foram that lived about 75 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period.
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Globotruncana falsostuarti

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a fossilized jawbone and tooth of an ichthyosaur
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An Ichthyosaur Jaw Bone

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