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Colorful illustration of extinct Archaeocyatha that lived on the seafloor.
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Archaeocyatha

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

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An archaeologist arranges a deep-sea core.
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Sediment Cores

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

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

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An artistic rendering of an ocean landscape as it may have looked during the Archean Eon.
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The Archean Eon (4,600 – 2,500 Million Years Ago)

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Artistic rendering of an ancient shark, Helicoprion.
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Illustration of Helicoprion

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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 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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Lenticulina secans-- this “benthic” foram lives on the seafloor. This specimen was collected from southeastern Tanzania.
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Lenticulina secans

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