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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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A Collection of Cambrian Fossils

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island

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dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find

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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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Smithsonian scientists race the tide the excavate an ancient whale fossil entombed in rock
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Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

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Ancient sea cow vertebra found in the Gatun Formation in Central America, Panama
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Ancient Sea Cow Vertebra

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Scientists remove remove the whale fossil plaster jacket from the r
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Excavating the Fossil

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

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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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Illustration of Opabinia with five eyes and what look like scales.
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Opabinia

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