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Smithsonian researchers with fossil whale skulls from the group Monodontidae
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a New Fossil Whale

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

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A screenshot from the video of jars in the Smithsonian marine collections.
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The Smithsonian Marine Collections

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Fossil tooth whorl of ancient shark.
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Fossil tooth spiral

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated

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Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

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A relative of insects, trilobites lived on the ocean floor during the Cambrian period.
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Trilobites

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A hippopotamus-like creature swims underwater
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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

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This jellyfish fossil is from the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago.
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Fossil Jellyfish

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Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
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Fossils Get a CT Scan

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A researcher holds an arm bone from a "toothed" mysticete whale from Vancouver Island.
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Arm Bone Fossil of an Ancient Toothed Whale

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dugong feeds on seagrass in the Red Sea
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Dugong Feeding

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