Nick Pyenson first fell in love with natural history museums as a child, growing up in Montreal when his parents would take him to McGill University’s Redpath Museum and Harvard’s Museum of ...

KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies gift of Nick Pyenson. KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies signed by author. "Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.

Some members of the sea cow species called dugongs spend their days feasting on seagrass in the Persian Gulf. By doing so, the bulbous marine mammals act as “ecosystem engineers,” reshaping the ...

In February 2015, we are partnering with the Field Book Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Libraries, and NMNH staff to transcribe the field notes and correspondence of Frederick ...

We have sound! Join us in this video that explores the Department of Fossil Marine Mammals with curator Dr. Nick Pyenson. Tweet us your questions and watch Twitter @TranscribeSI @BioDivLibrary ...

Shane meets Nick Pyenson, a biologist studying ancient and living whales. Shane steps into a land of giants at the to meet Nick Pyenson, a biologist who studies ancient (and living) whales, to find ...

Several years ago, construction workers in Chile found whale fossils from 6 to 9 million years ago. NPR's Jacki Lyden speaks with Nick Pyenson, a... Ecological Stories Uncovered With Whale Bones In ...

KELL, NH, MSRLSI copies gift of Dr. Nick Pyenson. KELL, NH, MSRLSI copies signed by author. Prologue -- (Part one: Past (1. How to know a whale ; 2. Mammals like no other ; 3. The stories bones tell ; ...

Meet Nick Pyenson, one of our paleontologists at the National Museum of Natural History. His job as a time traveler is to make discoveries about the past that can help shape our future. For more ...

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