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Illustration of the extinct ammonite, related to the modern squid.
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Ammonite

Like the modern nautilus, this relative of modern squid hunted from inside the safe...
Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
Screenshot from video "Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale" showing two scientists digging in the ground for fossils.
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Excavating an Extinct Toothed Whale

A time-lapse video shows researchers from the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:20

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