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the skull of a mosasaur
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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

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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

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an ammonite fossil with a carved snake head
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Snakestones

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A shark tooth embedded in a bone
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What the Megalodon Left Behind

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A screenshot from video showing Brian Huber behind a microscope.
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Smithsonian Paleobiologist Brian Huber

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Screenshot from video showing tiny foraminifera.
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Foraminifera on the Seafloor

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Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
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A Squalodontid Success

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Photograph of the model of a Giant Megatooth Shark, taken from the front..
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Shark Ancestors

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A rendering of an underwater marine scene from the Cambrian Period, featuring an arthropod, annelids, and other animals.
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A Collection of Cambrian Fossils

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A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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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
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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants

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A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution

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