Showing results for "All" Search Site Content You can search using keywords to narrow down the list of results. To clear this field, scroll down and click Reset. Language Content type Article (15) Slideshow (2) Video (1) Article Type Personal Perspectives (7) Article (6) Topics Ancient Seas (18) Extinctions (11) At The Museum (10) Marine Mammals (8) Evolution (7) Sharks & Rays (3) Through Time (3) Careers (2) Extinctions (2) Invertebrates (2) Exploration (1) History & Cultures (1) Human Connections (1) Plants & Algae (1) Reptiles (1) Tags (-) Ancient sea life (18) Fossils (15) Paleobiology (11) National Museum of Natural History (9) Smithsonian scientists (9) Whales (8) Geologic periods (5) Adaptations (4) Scientists at work (4) New discoveries (3) Feeding (2) Manatees & Dugongs (2) Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (2) News (2) Seagrass (2) Sharks (2) Smithsonian collections (2) Women in Science (2) slideshow Shark Ancestors Long before great white sharks appeared, much larger ancestors roamed the ocean....... Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:55 slideshow A Collection of Cambrian Fossils When you're standing in a museum surrounded by fossils, you can almost imagine...... Tue, 10/01/2013 - 10:03 video Evolution of Whales Animation Wed, 09/30/2009 - 11:21 Article Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...... November 2018 Article 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 Article Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales In the ocean there once lived a creature built for predatory prowess. It had teeth...... April 2019 Article What the Megalodon Left Behind The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...... July 2018 Article 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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly......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 Article 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 Personal Perspectives 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 Personal Perspectives 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 Personal Perspectives 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 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next Last page Last Site Search Sort by RelevanceTitle SortAuthored on Order AscDesc Sort By RelevanceA-ZZ-ANewestOldest
slideshow Shark Ancestors Long before great white sharks appeared, much larger ancestors roamed the ocean....... Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:55
slideshow A Collection of Cambrian Fossils When you're standing in a museum surrounded by fossils, you can almost imagine...... Tue, 10/01/2013 - 10:03
Article Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...... November 2018
Article 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
Article Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales In the ocean there once lived a creature built for predatory prowess. It had teeth...... April 2019
Article What the Megalodon Left Behind The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...... July 2018
Article 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
Article 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
Personal Perspectives 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
Personal Perspectives 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
Personal Perspectives 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