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![A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Breach-YanGuilbault-intro_0.jpg.webp?itok=CVOl6AfN)
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North Atlantic Right Whale
Stretching up to 16.8 meters (55 feet) long and weighing up to 62 tons (70 tons),......![Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/iceberg.jpg.webp?itok=ETprs4Vs)
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The Arctic and The Antarctic
Travel to the ends of the earth—literally—and discover the polar ocean basins.......![Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/HawaiianMonkSeal_JamesWatt_SeaPicsCropped_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=zX0MqQL_)
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Backbone of Biodiversity at Risk
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) maintains the......![Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Team_Breakfast_Pyenson_small.jpg.webp?itok=HD1SScLI)
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A Squalodontid Success
On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal......![A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Fig_1_-_Overview_Map.jpg.webp?itok=qSY4typn)
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Archaeologists Investigate an Early Whaling Community
For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologist, William Fitzhugh, has been......![Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/HawaiianMonkSeal_JamesWatt_SeaPicsCropped_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=zX0MqQL_)
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Endangered Ocean Animals
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law on December 28, 1973 by......![Right Whale Dorsal Fluke Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/1705_dorsal_flukes_22Aug1994-Chris_Slay_0_1.jpg.webp?itok=9WlTowx-)
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A Tale of a Right Whale
Suspended at the center of the Sant Ocean Hall is a life-size model of a North......![The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Ross_Sea_Map.jpg.webp?itok=itPuq5ou)
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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea
The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean......![A polar bear and its cub in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Polar_Bear_Alan_Wilson.jpg.webp?itok=8wNpP_Cc)
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