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![Photograph of the model of a Giant Megatooth Shark, taken from the front..](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/megalodon-full_1.jpg.webp?itok=_9a3fhql)
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Shark Ancestors
Long before great white sharks appeared, much larger ancestors roamed the ocean.......![A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Cambrian Period, featuring an arthropod, annelids, and other animals.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/602P01G01Burgess_Shalew.jpg.webp?itok=xUubUiMY)
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A Collection of Cambrian Fossils
When you're standing in a museum surrounded by fossils, you can almost imagine......![the skull of a mosasaur](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Image_from_iOS_%2814%29.jpg.webp?itok=y5p5wSQe)
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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
![Fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton sitting in what looks like the dirt it was excavated from.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/hsj_4315_mosasaur_skull_small.jpg.webp?itok=0SVo5e_o)
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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
![A shark tooth embedded in a bone](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Embedded_Tooth.JPG.webp?itok=OBR412Kc)
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What the Megalodon Left Behind
The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow......
July 2018
![Desmostylia A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Desmostylia.jpg.webp?itok=bIRBFWJr)
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows
In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly......
August 2016
![Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/DG001578_tif.jpg.webp?itok=iIsSv7-e)
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants
You may not have realized it, but you’ve been acquainted with Mary Anning since......
March 2016
![Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/fossil-plaster-jacket-pyenson-web.jpg.webp?itok=IYfsrzQX)
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner
After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate......
May 2012
![A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/pyenson-vancouver-island.jpg.webp?itok=zrGgdK3z)
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat......
May 2012
![An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Nick-Pyenson-Fossil-Whale4.jpg.webp?itok=Z3GAlZtl)
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups:...
May 2012
![An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Bohaskaia_illustration_Carl_Buell.jpg.webp?itok=PDjGwpV5)
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming......
March 2012
![An illustration of multispecies communities of dugongs from India, Mexico and Florida](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Dugong_Final_A_GS_Dec_11.jpg.webp?itok=pytGrx15)
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows
Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and......
January 2012