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Smithsonian Scientists Dig a Trench Around a squalodontid Skull
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Digging a Trench

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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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A fossil imprint of Ottoia prolifica.
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Ottoia prolifica

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A relative of insects, trilobites lived on the ocean floor during the Cambrian period.
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Trilobites

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

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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 fossilized ancient sea creature
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Wiwaxia

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A Smithsonian scientist with a whale fossil he excavated
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Panama Expedition Success

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Smithsonian scientists race the tide the excavate an ancient whale fossil entombed in rock
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Racing the Tide

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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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