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Tiny Ciliate

This Blepharisma japonicum is a single-celled protist called a ciliate, a...

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Giant Squid Caught on Camera

In 2019 an expedition funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

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Hope & Despair for the North Atlantic Right Whale Population

Late one afternoon in February 2019, Melanie White and the other members of a...

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Cyanobacteria

This blue-green microbe called a cyanobacterium was likely the first photosynthetic...

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Ammonoids

Though today cephalopods are best known as soft-bodied creatures such as squid and...

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A Half-Cast of a Whale

Joseph Palmer’s half-cast and skeleton of a humpback whale, shortly after it was...

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The Second Whale

A close-up of the life-size blue whale model in the new “Life in the Sea” hall,...

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Phoenix Arrives

A view of the model of Phoenix in the new Sant Ocean Hall, 2003. ...

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The Newest Whale

Exhibits preparator painting the model of Phoenix in 2003. ...

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A Whale at the Museum

Remington Kellogg and Leonhard Stejneger with the 1903 blue, or sulphur-bottom,...

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The World's Fair

A view of the National Museum exhibit with the blue whale cast in the U.S....

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The Cast of a Whale

Workers in the shed in the South Yard behind the Smithsonian building preparing the...