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Ancient Crinoid
A fossilized Platycrinus basicraniatus, a crinoid from the Mississippi period...
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Blastoid Fossil
A fossilized blastoid from the Smithsonian's collection. ...
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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur
Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...
November 2018

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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come
Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...
October 2018

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The Lace Crab
Marella splendens was an arthropod that lived during the Cambrian Period. It is the...
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The Burgess Shale
This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long...
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Triassic Shallows
Many marine reptiles from the Triassic Period look like large, scaly newts. Here,...
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A Silurian Reef
The eurypterids, a group of arthropods, were some of the most fearsome predators...
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Kelp Forest of the Neogene
Odobenocetops is a whale that lived off the coast of Peru and Chile during the...
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Plesiosaur on the Hunt
In the early 1800s, Mary Anning, a young paleontologist, discovered a peculiar...
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Jurassic Lagoon
This community represents what a nearshore lagoon system might look like during the...
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