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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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The Methane Circus

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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 fossilized ancient sea creature
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Wiwaxia

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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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The first known filter feeder is a large shrimp-like creature called Tamisiocaris borealis. The feather-like structures on its head were used to rake plankton from the sea.
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The First Filter Feeder

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Blue whale skull being installed at National Museum of Natural History.
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When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

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A skeleton of an ichthyosaur
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An Ichthyosaur's Bones

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A shark tooth embedded in a bone
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A Tooth Left Behind

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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 Ocean Throughout Geologic Time, An Image Gallery

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An image of a Anomalocaris canadensis fossil.
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Anomalocaris canadensis

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A 3D representation of a paleontological dig site with fossils colorized
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An Ichthyosaur Gravesite

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

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