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There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National...

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Dr. Isaac Ginis, an expert in hurricane modeling from The University of Rhode...

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This photo shows just a small part of the cephalopod collection at the...

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A life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix...

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Dr. Carole Baldwin is Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History....