Sentences with phrase «hammerhead in»

Also got to see my first ever Great Hammerhead in a dive site called Goombay Reef, wich was a major plus.

Usually (but not always) the tailgater is a hammerhead in a pick - up truck.

Chapple, now working at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, has been waiting two years to hear news of returning hammerheads in Baja for his Helmholtz coil experiment.

A multimillion - dollar global industry is constructed around the promise of doing just that: cage diving with white sharks in South Africa and Guadeloupe Island; shark feeding in the Bahamas, Mexico or Fiji; diving with huge schools of hammerheads in Cocos Island and Galapagos.

Additionally experience the adrenaline when scuba diving with hammerheads in Belongas Bay.

Residents in the USA could dive with hammerheads in the Galapagos Islands.

From minke whales in the Great Barrier Reef to manta rays in Komodo and hammerheads in Cocos Island, there are lots of adventures waiting for you.

Not exact matches

Because there is a nare on each side of the head, most prominently in the hammerhead shark, sharks can smell a very wide area.

His final club was American side Wilmington Hammerheads before retiring in 2016.

The longtime leader of the Herd's «Hammerheads» has found a way to create lanes for the run - heavy Elk Grove offense despite not always having the beefiest group in the trenches.

A hammerhead shark moves out of the green infinity in slow circles and withdraws.

Josu returns to the club after a short stint in the United States with the Hammerheads and the former Barcelona man sees the arrival of Azrack Mahamat at the club, a player who also played for the Catalan region, albeit for Espanyol.

If the hammerhead isn't your style, you can find several other sharks in plush form from this company.

After an observation of pathogenesis in a hammerhead shark in captivity (which sadly didn't survive), researchers at the Belle Isle Aquarium of the Detroit Zoological Institute decided to try to hatch the seemingly unfertilized eggs their white spotted bamboo sharks would leave around the tank.

Next up in our laser level reviews is the Hammerhead Cross Line Laser.

Michelle McComb of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and colleagues implanted electrodes into the eyes of three species of hammerhead — the winghead, the bonnethead and the scalloped hammerhead — and two other shark species to measure their field of vision.

We weren't in the best dive spot — the Galápagos has truly remarkable locations where you can swim through schools of hammerhead sharks, for example — but it wasn't bad.

It was first observed in a captive hammerhead shark in 2001, but this was an isolated incident, and the shark pup died after three days, making it difficult to say much about its evolutionary significance.

The sharks are hammerheads, living in an aquarium at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, in the US.

The research also shows that hammerheads — among other sharks — have a 360 - degree view of the world in the vertical plane, allowing them to simultaneously see prey above and below them.

The large fins of oceanic whitetips fetch about $ 90 per kilogram; hammerhead fins, also large for their size, bring in $ 110 to $ 220 per kilogram.

The whitetip, porbeagle and scalloped hammerhead all had proposals considered at the last CITES meeting in 2010 but each narrowly missed the two thirds majority needed for adoption.

«Hammerheads and manta rays in particular are very iconic animals,» Shiffman says.

Michelle McComb of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and colleagues compared the visual fields of three species of hammerhead — the winghead, the bonnethead and the scalloped hammerhead — with those of two other species of shark.

That overlap helps hammerheads to perceive depth as they hunt, says Demian Chapman of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University in New York.

Live birth also occurs in some non-mammalian species, such as guppies and hammerhead sharks; thus it is not a distinguishing characteristic of mammals.

Hammerhead sharks were once plentiful in the waters of Baja California.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

The first scientist to study sharks in the Sea of Cortez was Peter Klimley, the legendary University of California, Davis marine biologist often called «Dr. Hammerhead.»

Back in the 1980s, hammerheads were hundreds strong in the Sea of Cortez, a gulf between the Baja peninsula and the mainland.

When the waters cooled, hammerhead sharks arrived in this part of the Mexican state of Baja California in droves.

Hammerhead sharks, which have recently received new protections from the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, are experiencing drastic population declines in excess of 90 % in several parts of world.

And Carl Meyer at the University of Hawaii showed in 2005 that six sandbar sharks and one scalloped hammerhead could be conditioned to enter a feeding area when an artificial magnetic field was turned on.

So he left for Mexico following a vague report of hammerheads gathering in the Sea of Cortez.

It's the first serious move in years by Mexico to protect hammerheads.

The research suggests that juvenile female hammerheads are trading off the risks of greater exposure to predators in the open sea, in exchange for the opportunity to get offshore as early as possible and grow big quickly.

And just this March, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to ban undocumented sales of several hammerhead species, threatening to sanction countries that don't comply.

Measures including the current prohibition of commercial fishing from large vessels within 50 nautical miles from the coast have resulted in some protection, but the researchers say that this new information highlights that hammerhead sharks may still be in danger, due to their use of both coastal and offshore waters during early life stages.

By completing her biological cycle in both coastal and offshore areas of the central and southwestern Gulf of California, the researchers believe that the hammerhead was maximizing her foraging opportunities and continued growth.

The precise movements of a young hammerhead shark have been tracked for the first time and are published in the open access journal Animal Biotelemetry.

Ocean scientists debate over the efficacy of MPAs when it comes to migratory species, like hammerheads, with a range too large to ever protect in full.

In 2001, a captive bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo), a type of hammerhead shark (pictured), gave birth to a normal - appearing female offspring.

But in a paper published today in Science Advances, paleontologists reveal what was really going on — that «beak» is actually part of a hammerhead - shaped jaw apparatus, which it used to feed on plants on the ocean floor.

The United States has officially proposed to list six threatened shark species — oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar and great, scalloped and smooth hammerheads — under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Scalloped hammerhead, white, and thresher sharks are each estimated to have declined by over 75 % in the past 15 years.

A new genomics study of shark DNA, including from great white and great hammerhead sharks, reveals unique modifications in their immunity genes that may underlie the rapid wound healing and possibly higher resistance to cancers in these ocean predators.

«Recreational fishing in the USA is likely having quite an impact on great hammerheads» explains Guttridge.

This is a non-invasive technique in which we can accurately estimate the size of sensitive animals, such as the great hammerhead shark.

There are many different types of ribozymes in nature but our lab has focused upon the hammerhead motif which is found as part of the self - cleaving domain of small plant viruses.

There are two sad dinosaurs, one who crawled out on land too late to avoid being ripped open by hammerhead sharks and another that lays in a river and gets their head stepped on a couple of times by a Barneysaur with a big head and little arms..