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Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.

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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

October 2018

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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?

July 2016

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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

September 2011

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