Sentences with phrase «from whale bones»

From whale bones, 42 Arctic driftwood, 26 and patterns of Arctic shoreline erosion, 25 we also know that during the Holocene, Arctic summer sea ice retreated 1000 kilometers further north than seen today.

Among the many curiosities depicted are a village built entirely from whale bones and a stupefied, beached fin whale straddled by 15 inquisitive monks.

Not exact matches

On a whim, Osborne and Akerboom swabbed the bones from a prehistoric whale found by Alford.

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.

Instead of submerging the 45 - ton carcass in the ocean, where tidal movements and sea creatures could clean the bones — as was done with the blue whale — the museum's restoration team buried the sperm whale for three months in a 60 - ton layer cake of hay mixed with bacteria - rich horse and elephant manure, procured from local farmers and an obliging zoo.

The 126 bones of the latter - day leviathan, some laid out on tables, others in drawers, form the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled From the Deep: The Sperm Whale, Bone by Bone.

Now researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have examined 16 sperm whale skeletons collected since 1870 and found pockmarks and erosion in the bones of adult whales.

The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.

This tiny whale was an adult individual, judging from fused bones in the skeleton.

The hairs — found tangled around a whale bone comb — are the only known human remains from the earliest people to settle in Greenland, known as the Saqqaq culture.

They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.

The evidence for this comes from megalodon tooth marks found on whale bones.

His most recent beer, Bone Dusters Paleo Ale — brewed with yeast extracted from a 35 - million - year - old whale fossil found in Virginia — was released on 18 June.

Lawrence Barnes of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and his colleagues found in Washington State the bones of an as yet unnamed ancient baleen whale from the so - called Late Oligocene epoch.

The Big Friendly Giant who kidnaps Sophie only because she has seen him, is a «nice and jumbly» giant which is good as the other 9 in the story are cannibalistic meanies, whose eating of children from various countries (children from Wales (Whales) taste fishy etc) and such antics as spitting out the bones are never really described in much detail merely mentioned.

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Fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones salvaged from the sea, various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan's «Desolation Row,» concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, and Plexiglas.

The Japanese tossed us a bone as a means to divert our attention from their intention to kill 1000 whales in the Southern Ocean.