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dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

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Two researchers, looking for fossil whales, scan a rock formation in Peru's Pisco Basin.
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Searching for Fossil Whales in Peru

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

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A close-up image of a fossil shark jaw with teeth.
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Shark Teeth Tell Great White Shark Evolution Story

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

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Fossil tooth whorl of ancient shark.
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Fossil tooth spiral

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Fossils of teeth from Giant Megatooth Shark
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Megalodon Teeth

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Proterozoic Eon, featuring a creature that resembles a jellyfish and other organisms.
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Ediacaran Community, Proterozoic Eon (2,500 - 542 Million Years Ago)

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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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Paleobiologist Mark D. Uhen drills away rock to reveal the fossilized bones of Peruvian archaeocetes (ancient whales), in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the Museo de Historia Natural de San Marcos. Uhen is a professor at George Mason Univer
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Preparing a Fossil Whale Specimen

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