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Photograph of the model of a Giant Megatooth Shark, taken from the front..
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Giant Megatooth Model

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Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

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Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.
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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

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

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

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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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This jellyfish fossil is from the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago.
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Fossil Jellyfish

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