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A Squalodontid Success
On a beach in Piña, Panama the tide is rolling out. Faint outlines of skeletal...
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 17:47
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit
One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert
Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of...
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Illustration of a New Fossil Whale, Bohaskaia monodontoides
A reconstruction of a new fossil beluga relative, Bohaskaia monodontoides,...
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Tale of a Whale
Students exercise their observation skills to do some of the actual work of marine...
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:03
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: those...
May 2012
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It’s Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
In this introductory activity, students analyze core sample data to identify...
Mon, 03/15/2010 - 14:56
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Wreck Detectives
Students utilize a grid system to document the location of artifacts recovered from...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:08
Personal Perspectives
Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans
If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Personal Perspectives
One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species
My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...
December 2012
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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam
The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...
March 2014