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Small red hyperiid.
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

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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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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Cambrian Period, featuring an arthropod, annelids, and other animals.
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Cambrian Period (542 – 488 Million Years Ago)

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An Illustration of small tentacled fossils.
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Ancient Entoproct Community

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An amphipod within Arctic sea ice.
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Amphipod Under Arctic Sea Ice

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Extreme close-up of great white shark skin denticles.
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Biomimicry Shark Denticles

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Photograph of a transparent polka-dotted squid in the dark ocean.
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Cockatoo Squid

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Illustration of a four-legged proto-whale with webbed feet.
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Early Whale with Webbed Feet

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Color illustration of an ancient bivalve.
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Elevator Rudists

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Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree appears in his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837).
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Darwin’s Evolutionary Tree Diagram

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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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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

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