Sentences with phrase «cross open ocean»

Santa Barbara Channel — WE know why blue whales cross open ocean to visit our coastal waters.

because we are crossing open ocean it is recommended any seasickness medications are taken in advance.

Not exact matches

An Australian trapdoor spider may have crossed the ocean from Africa rather than being the product of geographical separation, according to a study published August 2, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Sophie Harrison from The University of Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues.

«There is a long - standing view that once the Portuguese entered the Indian Ocean» — opening sea lanes to Europe in the 16th century — «no one bothered to cross Central Asia,» said project manager Kathryn Franklin, also of UChicago.

We know that open water was no barrier to travel in the Pleistocene — humans must have crossed hundreds of kilometres of ocean to reach Australia by 50,000 years ago.

Rather than projecting out to the mid-twenty-first century, it is clear that the Arctic Ocean already has crossed a threshold with open water during the summer and first - year sea ice during the winter covering more than 50 percent of its area.

In the opening illustration, Sadie is hiding inside a box, her head barely peeking above the top, but, as she tells readers, she's actually on a giant boat, crossing the ocean.

Their results suggest that 75 % of nitrogen and 80 % of phosphorus cross the continental shelves, delivering a total of 17 teragrams of nitrogen and 1.2 teragrams of phosphorus from rivers to the open ocean each year.