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a life size model of a megalodon
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The Model Megalodon

Take a trip to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. and you...
A map of where megalodons lived
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Megalodons Throughout the World

many different trilobites
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Trilobite Shapes

Prolific survivors with a segmented body plan that could be easily modified and...
a timeline of the precambrian
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Precambrian Timeline

a timeline of the paleozoic era
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Paleozoic Timeline

A timeline of the mesozoic era
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Mesozoic Timeline

a fossil of an ancient arthropod
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The Lace Crab

Marella splendens was an arthropod that lived during the Cambrian Period. It is the...
a fossilized opabinia
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The Burgess Shale

This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long...
several marine reptiles swim in the shallows
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Triassic Shallows

Many marine reptiles from the Triassic Period look like large, scaly newts. Here,...
a reef scene with fish and large "sea scorpions"
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A Silurian Reef

The eurypterids, a group of arthropods, were some of the most fearsome predators...
an ancient whale scavenges in a kelp forest
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Kelp Forest of the Neogene

Odobenocetops is a whale that lived off the coast of Peru and Chile during the...
two plesiosaurs hunt
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Plesiosaur on the Hunt

In the early 1800s, Mary Anning, a young paleontologist, discovered a peculiar...

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