Miocene Anapsid Scute

From Brownie's Beach, Chesapeake Beach, MD; Miocene Epoch

Marine Mammal Warehouse at the Garber Facility

The Office

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This is taken from my little nook in the paleontology curator's office. My research subject is the little thing in the bottom left, which I'll have a more detailed photo of later. It is a piece of cetacean rib with evidence of a shark bite in it. The mission will be to figure out the taxa of whale and shark.

End of the Semester

Carcharodon megalodon

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Today was the day of my last final. I'll actually be heading to the Calvert Marine Museum on Monday to decide on my project. That means I'll be seeing this reconstruction of the extinct giant white shark on a daily basis. This is pretty much the pride and joy of the museum and Calvert Cliffs, given the abundance of teeth found. You probably would not have wanted to have approached this close when it was alive though.