Sentences with phrase «dead whale»

They can last for decades, perhaps as long as a century, and support a succession of weird and wonderful organisms, some of which only live on dead whales.

From «immortal» jellyfish that age in reverse, to zombie bone worms that eat the skeletons of dead whales, the ocean is full of bizarre characters.

Smith, a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has been sinking dead whales in this way since 1992.

Last Saturday, two dead whales washed up on the coast of Suffolk, in eastern England, and a third was spotted floating at sea.

One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

As long ago as 1934, the Danish zoologist August Krogh speculated that dead whales sink to the bottom and are eaten by whatever lives down there.

Which means more dead whales.

Researchers like Sumida have found, for example, that dead whales provide a pulse of food to nutrient - starved ocean floors, enabling a specialized ecosystem to flourish on the decaying carcasses.

Whales can become beached after they die, although most dead whales decompose or are scavenged at sea, before sinking to the bottom.

Plastic's everywhere these days: in seal bellies, dead whale bellies, our bottled water, and now our freaking beer, man.

Well actually, there is a lot more here than just me and the dead jellyfish, and this giant dead whale.

He first attracted art - world acclaim for his colossal dead whale «beached» in the Patagonian forest, created from clay, wood and concrete in 2009.

Pete Says: «When I met with Paul Watson in July 2009, he gave me permission to take a Bow and Arrow to Antarctica, with the idea of pasting a poison on the arrow tips (or fake poison), and firing them into dead whales while they were being transferred from harpoon vessel to processing ship.

Contrary to statements made by Sea Shepherd during Bethune's pre-trial jailing in Japan that Bethune had not been authorized to carry a bow and arrow during the Antarctic campaign, Bethune says that the idea was to use to coat the arrows in some sort of poison, fire them into dead whales as they were being transferred for processing.

On the seafloor, dozens of unique marine bacteria, worms and crustaceans make their homes within rotting bones of dead whales.

It was caught near a whaling station off the coast of Western Australia, where white sharks did scavenge on dead whales.

Experts from a wildlife conservation group say a dead whale that washed up on a New York beach was likely hit by a boat.

These lips are so tightly compressed — even in a dead whale — that if you thrust your hand through them they would cut off the circulation at your wrist.

First, of course, he would need a dead whale, preferably a young one that had beached itself on the coast of California near his home.

NEXT time a whale becomes stranded on a beach in New Zealand, Craig Smith will be secretly hoping that any rescue attempts fail, so that he can tow the dead whale out to sea, strap a couple of tonnes of scrap metal to it, and dispatch it to a watery grave.

But it was more than half a century before researchers saw what becomes of a dead whale.

The whale - catching vessel Yushin Maru with a dead whale in 2008.

The evidence comes from increasingly frequent scenes of dead and rotting fish on beaches; shellfish harvesting quarantines; dead whales, manatees and other marine animals; and a number of other highly visible outcomes.

A dead whale is, in economic terms, a private good.

Samples from the dead whale (pdf) will ultimately tell what killed this denizen of the deep.

The dead whales can provide critical clues to the species» overall life history, genetics, and health, as well as the causes of death.

fishes, other sharks, skates, stingrays, sea turtles, molluscs, crustaceans, seabirds and even dead whales.

This is not an overwhelming flaw, however, as the mix is on the whole clear and pristine, and as the final piano and harp notes fade out at the end of On The Day You Saw The Dead Whale the lasting effect is one of calm contentment.

Which makes perfect sense if you are Hideo Kojima, but is just as baffling as vanishing babies, dead whales, and Mads Mikkelsen appearing from behind a pair of night vision goggles to the rest of us.

Paddling out into the ocean, she unintentionally comes upon a shark devouring the floating carcass of a dead whale.

A character clings onto the decaying body of a dead whale.

He strode across the chamber and stood next to his lamp, which burned with a steady flame and the smell of a dead whale that had traveled thousands of leagues in the hold of a ship.

Episode 2: Whale Autopsy What happens when a dead whale washes ashore along the central California coast?

A dead whale surfaced Wednesday on the Alameda side of the Oakland Estuary, officials said, lodged under a pier where marine mammal researchers had a difficult time getting a look at it.

Maybe not, but there is a precedent for ridding a beach of a dead whale, specifically on the Oregon coast in 1970.

Authorities often don't find out about an accident until a carcass washes ashore with propeller injuries or a ship comes to port with a dead whale pinned to its bow.

I circled the dead whale, whose blubber has bronzed with time.

Once in awhile in the intervening years a dead whale would reach shore to remind us that blues still existed.

Please report any collisions with whales or any observed injured or dead whales to NOAA at 877 - SOS - WHALe (877-767-9425) or to the U.S. Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16.

High tides are preventing scientists from reaching a dead whale that washed up in a remote part of the Point Reyes National Seashore earlier this week.

How did a three - month residency in Iceland and a dead whale change the work of Chicago — based artist Christopher Meerdo?

The video shows the artist Patty Chang sponging down a dead whale.

One shows Ms. Chang standing thigh deep in frigid gray water, sponging down a dead whale found washed up on an island off Newfoundland.

Scenes we shot of pelagic white tip sharks feeding on dead whales will, alas, never be seen again because of the severe depletion of sharks.

There must be a risk that faced with gigatonnes of new potential food, they would learn to eat it, as a handy addition to the standard menu of fish shit and dead whales.

The dead whale that washed ashore in Alaska's Bering Sea turns out to be a new whale species.

At the end of May the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contacted Wynne telling her that crew aboard an Alaska Marine Highway System's ferry had encountered and photographed a number of dead whales.

The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen.