Sentences with phrase «from tiger sharks»

In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

To learn more about such gnashing, the student mounted four to 10 teeth from a tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), a sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), a silky shark (C. falciformis), and a sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) onto separate sawing blades.

Not exact matches

One moment, say, dealing with global warming issues, another, say, trying to save the tiger or save the sharks from finning.

Likewise, when tiger sharks are actively hunting turtles, they stalk their prey from deep below to launch a stealthy attack.

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

Already they have discovered a tiger shark that wandered 300 miles from an island offshore just to snack at Cabo Pulmo before heading back out.

Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish

Photos from Australia's controversial shark extermination show that released tiger sharks are also dying — both from the stress of capture and improper handling

The team analyzed 30 fossil sand tiger shark teeth exhumed from Banks Island and 19 modern sand tiger shark teeth from specimens caught in Delaware Bay bordered by Delaware and New Jersey.

When the scientists recovered the tags from two male sand tiger sharks in 2013, the downloaded data told an unexpected story.

To quantify spatio - temporal patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks — 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and 2 Caribbean reef sharks — that were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas.

Three species of shark, tiger, lemon and Caribbean reef, all use deeper coral reefs in the Virgin Islands, but only lemon shark presence was associated with seasonal grouper spawning aggregations, according to a study published May 4, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandria Pickard from Nova Southeastern University, Florida, Bradley Wetherbee of the University of Rhode Island and colleagues.

The footage from 14 tiger sharks, six Galapagos sharks, five sandbar sharks, five bluntnose sixgill sharks and a prickly shark is the first to be taken of sharks, by sharks in their natural environment.

Then, one fateful Halloween morning, the wave - riding teen was taking part in a national surf competition when a 14 - foot - long tiger shark emerged from the depths and changed her life in the blink of an eye.

Emboldened divers seeking a less scripted encounter with apex predators can meet up with everything from hammerheads and lemon sharks to tigers, bulls and oceanic white tips.

From September to March is the best time to potentially encounter tiger sharks, killer whales, humpback whales, whale sharks, pilot whales, and spinner dolphins.

I have seen tiger sharks back away from a free mealwhen a diver with a big camera housing moved too close.

Silvertips, grey reef, whitetip reef, blacktip reef, sicklefin lemons, and tawny nurse sharks as well as large bull and occasional tiger sharks come to feed on the fish bait provided at a depth of 25 to 30m on the reef ledge while divers observe from a safe distance.

One of the resort's dive boats will take you and your dive guides to a special site inside the lagoon where numerous bull sharks, silver tips, grey nurse and the occasional tiger shark meet to be hand - fed by dive masters from Aquatrek or Beqa Adventure Divers.

Here you can find the freshwater Eli Creek; Indian Head, a rocky outcrop where you can spot tiger sharks, dolphins, and stingrays; and the Champagne Pools, natural rock pools named after Champagne - like bubbles that froth up from crashing waves.

Sample the incredible close up action from feeding bull sharks, tiger sharks and silvertips at Pacific Harbour in Viti Levu.

From cyber tigers and Panthers to robot sharks and alligators, there's plenty of game here for your hunting enjoyment.

A group of works by Damien Hirst, including his famous tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, as well as pieces by fellow British artists Tracey Emin, Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marc Quinn, and Chris Ofili, among many others, are to be temporarily removed from display at the Saatchi Gallery, Cristina Ruiz reports in the Art Newspaper.

Last fall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an Art Deco Loch Ness monster appeared in the river, 100,000 paper airplanes were launched from rooftops of downtown buildings, and a tiger shark sculpted of colored ice lay in a refrigerated truck parked outside the Gerald R. Ford Museum.