Sentences with phrase «from whale carcasses»

To make the discovery, announced in May, researchers led by Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution collected tissue samples from whale carcasses during a legal commercial whaling operation in Iceland.

Not exact matches

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 census turned up more than 6,000 new species candidates, including the pair depicted here: an acorn worm from the deeps of the North Atlantic, and a polychaete worm (right) found on a whale carcass near Japan.

Now, an analysis of more than 1700 whale carcasses collected at Donkergat whaling station in South Africa in 1963 confirms that the bites come from the prime suspect — cookie - cutter sharks.

A team from the California Academy of Sciences and the Marine Mammal Center attempted to reach the whale on Thursday, but the carcass was too far out in the water and the tide was too high, Oswald said.

The first trailer beings with dead crabs curled on a dried - up beach and ends with a panning shot that shows several whale carcasses miles away from the ocean.

Over the next two weeks, reports continued to come in from boaters, fishermen and pilots relaying more sightings of whale carcasses.