Sentences with phrase «from walrus»

Paul Souders gets up close with animals from polar bears to penguins, from walrus to belugas, as he travels from pole to pole documenting wildlife.

Some of the first - ever pictures of walrus were taken from this walrus cage that we made.

Linda Geddes explodes the myths about what separates whippets from walruses

Not exact matches

In a newly published article in the international journal The Science of Nature the multidisciplinary team of researchers report their analysis of the internal structure of tooth enamel in a fossil walrus from California, Pelagiarctos thomasi, and in teeth of modern pinnipeds the New Zealand fur seal and sea lion.

An Otago - led team of scientists using techniques from the field of dentistry is shedding new light on the evolution of walruses, fur seals and sea lions.

Artist restoration of the head of Pelagiarctos thomasi, a fossil walrus from California.

Now, a new analysis using the same sort of computer software that engineers employ to analyze bridges and aircraft parts suggests that Kolponomos may have collected its shelly prey in a unique way: They might have used their teeth and formidable neck muscles to clamp down on clams, mussels, and other mollusks and then wrench them directly off the rocks to which they were attached, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (Modern marine mammals that consume such prey either slurp them right out of the shell, as walruses do, or pry them from the rocks using their forelimbs and then eat them, as otters do.)

Greenland was a key source of walrus ivory, which was carved into luxury goods such as the famous 12th century Lewis chessmen from Scotland.

Fast - melting Arctic sea ice has forced some 35,000 Pacific walruses to retreat to the Alaska shoreline, scientists from several federal agencies said on Wednesday.

A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in partnership with researchers and practitioners from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Space Quest, Google, and SkyTruth, reviews the use of a maritime vessel communication and navigational safety system that is not only effective in protecting people, but wildlife such as whales, walruses, and other wildlife species as well.

What makes a horse different from a tiger, a mouse and a walrus is the set of regulatory switches in the DNA that dictate where, when and for how long those genes are active.

The Inuit — While they ate a high - fat, high - protein, low - carb diet consisting of the fat and meat from seal, walrus, whale, caribou, fish, and other wild game, the Inuit actually utilized a wide variety of plant foods including berries, sea vegetables, lichens, and rhizomes.

He punished Justin Long's selfish podcast - hosting protagonist from Tusk — a man who profited from other people's misfortunes and felt no shame about cheating on his girlfriend — by making him the prey of a psychotic old man who took his obsession with walruses to a Dr. Frankenstein - like extreme.

Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan, aka the walrus - faced guy and his weird - looking sociopath friend from the original's cantina scene, have a run - in with main characters Jyn and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna); the latter delivers his ersatz catch - phrase «You just watch yourself!»

The premise is inherently far - fetched but the sight of Justin Long sutured into an anthropomorphic - patchwork walrus suit (which resembles Belial from «Basket Case») is profoundly disturbing simultaneously.

Finally Smith gave us the first trailer for Tusk, which he elaborately explained came from an idea developed during one of his podcasts, called Smodcast, where he discussed an ad someone in real - life posted about wanting someone to come stay with them and agree to dress in a walrus suit.

Its primary duty was to pull sleds laden with walrus meat from the hunting grounds back to the village.

13 days, from $ 6,495 USD • Explore the Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage Site • Visit Sam Ford Fjord, one of the most isolated places on the planet • View arctic wildlife, such as walrus and possibly polar bears

11 days, from $ 6,295 USD • Unique Arctic wildlife — polar bears, walrus, reindeer • Polar desert exploration • Snowshoeing and kayaking available on select expeditions • Hike the Tundra

At the world's top zoos, you'll run into familiar characters like elephants, polar bears, and walruses, as well as meet lesser - known species like the Thailand clouded leopard and the armadillo - like pangolin from Asia and Africa.

Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.

A nature lover's paradise, the Falklands show signs of life everywhere you look: from crags dotted with seabirds, to beaches swarming with penguins (the Falklands are home to five different species), to vast watery depths where whales, walruses and seals compete for space off - shore.

See — and learn about — the amazing undersea worlds of animals from around the globe, including penguins, turtles, walruses, beluga whales, and sea lions.

Equipped with the powerful lichtspeer, you fight hordes of beasts from another dimension such as Wurst Zombies, Evil Spacedwarfs, Skaer Walruses, and more.

16 May 2013 The Telegraph posts a slideshow documenting the Horniman walrus as it is moved from the National History Gallery and installed in «Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing,» an exhibition curated by Brian Dillon

Feb. 9, 12:10 a.m. Updated The Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the Pacific walrus, greatly recovered from decades of slaughter but facing stress in the warming Arctic climate, merits protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Here's some input from Tony Fischbach, a walrus specialist with the survey who just returned from Point Lay, where a huge group of walruses have hauled onto beaches:

(09/01/2011) Recent, unprecedented walrus haul - outs and increased instances of long - distance swims by polar bears show the direct impacts on wildlife of dwindling Arctic sea ice from climate change.

The plan is a huge step for conservation of the Western Arctic, an area increasingly stressed by climate change, and provides critical protections for key lands in the Reserve and the wildlife dependent on it, including migratory birds from around the world, caribou, bears, wolves, beluga whales, and walrus.

When sub-freezing winds removed much of the thick Arctic ice from this region in the 1990s when Arctic Oscillation shifted, walrus rapidly exploited the region's resources and over 120,000 walruses hauled around Wrangel Island.

Center for Biological Diversity climate science director Shaye Wolf says walruses face extinction from climate change and denying them critical protections will push them closer to the edge.»

Around Svalbard, where ice conditions vary widely from year to year and from locality to locality, bears in low - ice areas have turned to eggs, birds, whales, walruses and even reindeer.

Hunting walrus from St. Lawrence Island depends on just the right combination of ice and winds.

The SIWO provides weekly reports from April through June with information on sea ice conditions relevant to walrus in the Northern Bering Sea and southern Chukchi Sea regions of Alaska.

I provided links to published accounts from past centuries and earlier BBC videos demonstrating that polar bears throughout the Chukchi Sea commonly hunt walrus on land; a fact that Attenborough distorted into a cinematic illusion misrepresenting a natural behavior as a function of catastrophic climate change.

Oh, and they also listed dead scientists as points of contact and included walrus and polar bears as animals that could be impacted by a spill (clearly they just cut and pasted from an Alaska plan and no one at MMS read it).

«We make sure that when we do surveys we are far enough from the shore,» said FWS walrus researcher Joel Garlich.