Sentences with phrase «giant sperm whales»
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Like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, paleontologists have long been on the track of a giant sperm whale, one armed with large, flesh - tearing teeth.
What I took away most from In the Heart of the Sea was more than just some mindless giant sperm whale wreaking havoc on the Essex, but rather a metaphor of nature exacting its revenge on global industry much like Godzilla destroying Tokyo for its irresponsibility with nuclear power.
Not exact matches
A sperm whale has this puny lower jaw, but it eats a huge variety of prey, from little bitty lantern fish about the size of a pocketknife to giant squid as long as a school bus.
Working in Peru, they unearthed similar teeth along with the giant skull and jaw of a fearsome, 12 - million - year - old sperm whale.
«What's fascinating is that sperm whales, a globally distributed and (formerly) abundant predator of giant squid, also exhibit extremely low genetic diversity.
In 2008, remains of a giant raptorial sperm whale, Livyatan melvillei, were discovered at this site.
Even sperm whales in deep waters offshore, where the delta's abundance concentrates food resources for these marine giants, depend on a healthy delta.
by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.
A fold - out shows a sperm whale's single bite — an entire giant squid!
And now giant squid populations are exploding in various regions — maybe a good thing for sperm whales, but ask Captain Nemo what he thinks about that!
Sea monsters, sirens, sperm whales, giant squids, octopi, submarines, drowned sailors and shipwrecks are all portrayed here by many of art history's «greats» JMW Turner, Odilon Redon, Hokusai, Barbara Hepworth and Oskar Kokoshka among them.
THE giant skull of a sperm whale, an aircraft engine ground to grey dust and the glorious shimmer of gold leaf.