{"id":375,"date":"2011-02-21T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=375"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:28:22","slug":"whale-research-at-the-smothsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2011\/02\/21\/whale-research-at-the-smothsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale research at the Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 19, Professor Werth of the Hampden-Sydney Biology Department visited with Dr. Nick Pyenson, an expert on fossil whales and Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s Natural Museum of National History. They examined fossil material of several extinct whale species, including the rare fossil shown here. It is hoped that H-SC Biology students can get involved with this work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_376\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/dr-nick-pyenson.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-376\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/dr-nick-pyenson-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Nicholas Pyenson with rare fossil whale jaw\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Nicholas Pyenson with rare fossil whale jaw<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 19, Professor Werth of the Hampden-Sydney Biology Department visited with Dr. Nick Pyenson, an expert on fossil whales and Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s Natural Museum of National History. They examined fossil material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2011\/02\/21\/whale-research-at-the-smothsonian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}