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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
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Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

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A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

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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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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

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On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late 1970s.
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Sea Level Rise

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A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Fossil Forams and the Scientific Process

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

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

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An image of a Anomalocaris canadensis fossil.
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Anomalocaris canadensis

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A handful of fossil pieces from the Cambrian period sit on a gray background.
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Scientists and Fossils

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

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