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Photograph of a bright yellow fish.
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Tagged Atlantic Cod

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Two nautiluses in the open ocean off the coast of Palau.
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A Couple of Nautiluses

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An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Smithsonian Fish Collections

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A right whale opens wide, revealing huge plates of baleen hanging from its upper jaw.
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Right Whale Baleen

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Traditional Native festivities often included ceremonial objects like this bowl.
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Feasting Bowl

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A life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix hangs in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
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Model of Phoenix

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An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix that was used to develop a life size model for the Smithsonian shows the location of scars on her mouth from entanglements with fishing gear.
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Phoenix: Mouth Scarring

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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A giant squid dissection
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Dissecting a Giant Squid

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The canoe traveled more than 4,828 kilometers (3,000 miles) to reach Washington, D.C.
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Raven Spirit’s Journey

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Powerful suckers stud the club at the end of the giant squid’s long feeding tentacle.
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Giant Squid Feeding Tentacle

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Close-up photograph of an arrow squid embryo.
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Squid Embryo

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