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An image of a Anomalocaris canadensis fossil.
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Anomalocaris canadensis

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

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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 fossilized ancient sea creature
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Wiwaxia

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This jellyfish fossil is from the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago.
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Fossil Jellyfish

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Arm Bone Fossil of an Ancient Toothed Whale

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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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Smithsonian scientists apply a plaster bandage cap to a block of rock containing fossils
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Securing the Fossil

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