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a painting of a ship on a plate of baleen
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The Story of Stashed Whale Baleen

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

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an illustration of a sperm whale and a giant squid
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Clyde Roper: Squid Hunter - Architeuthis

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painting of squid pulling sailor underwater
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Clyde Roper On the Over-Sized Anatomy of the Giant Squid

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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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Smithsonian Fish Collections

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An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth

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Smithsonian Zoologist Dr. Clyde Roper in front of the museum's stored cephalopod collection.
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Smithsonian Cephalopod Collection

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Seven of the newly discovered Starksia blennies, small fish with elongated bodies
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Scientists Discover Seven New Species of Fish

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