Sentences with phrase «large predatory»

Overall, 90 percent of the world's large predatory fish are in decline [4].

Fishing with miles - long lines of baited hooks has spread around the world in the past few decades and has removed up to 90 percent of the large predatory species, including tunas, billfish and sharks, according to a variety of recent studies.

In other words, the emphasis was on feeding small ornamental species — not the large predatory fish that are so popular today.

The tank has numerous large predatory haplochromines, including trout cichlids and hawkbills.

They are excellent food for large predatory fishes and can survive underwater for many days.

I never believed frozen squid would sell, but they do — mainly to people with large predatory marine fish like groupers, moray eels and triggers.

Many commonly eaten fish are surprisingly low in mercury, especially North Atlantic small fish, as opposed to the large predatory ones or the estuary bottom dwellers.

These toxins become concentrated in older fish, large predatory fish, and in fatty species of fish.

However, keeping these large predatory fish to 2 - 3 times per month max is a good idea.

Other sources of mercury include coal - burning industrial plants, large predatory ocean fish, river fish, and dental amalgams.

Minimize the consumption of large predatory fish (swordfish, tuna, etc) as they are higher in mercury.

«Our results add a new level of detail to our understanding of the way large predatory dinosaurs interacted with the world around them,» says Elis Newham, a University of Southampton PhD researcher and study co-author.

Using similar techniques, another team of researchers studied how one type of large predatory dinosaur — Allosaurus — might have fed.

A new species of a fossil pliosaur (large predatory marine reptile from the «age of dinosaur») has been found in Russia and profoundly change how we understand the evolution of the group, says an international team of scientists.

However, only completely closed no - take marine reserves successfully returned large predatory fish to the ecosystem.»

Large predatory fish were also few and far between.

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds — and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards — reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.

Last May biologists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reported that global stocks of large predatory fish have declined by 90 percent since industrial fishing began in the mid-1950s.

Triassic Neopterygii primarily developed small species while the majority of the more basal ray - fins produced large predatory fish.

Chief among the criticisms were the animal's hindlimbs, significantly smaller compared with other large predatory dinosaurs, as well as other researchers» theoretical Spinosaurus models.

That goes for every large predatory fish: sharks, tuna, sailfish, cod... It's only through fishing that we have any idea how many fish are out there.

Research from Dalhousie University suggests that given just 15 years, a modern industrialized fishery can reduce the biomass of large predatory fish communities by 80 %.

The largest predatory fish on the planet inspired Steven Spielberg's movie Jaws, which sealed the shark's image as a man - eater.

Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim garnered fame — and controversy — when he found the largest predatory dinosaur ever known.

Under the settlement, which is the largest predatory lending settlement in history, the mandatory loan modification program will provide immediate relief to homeowners who were put into the riskiest types of loans.

The Atlantic silverside's predators are larger predatory fish — Striped Bass, Blue Fish, Atlantic Mackerel, Tarpon — and many shore birds, including Egrets, Terns, Cormorants, and Gulls

Not exact matches

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

The federal government accused ITT Educational Services, one of the largest for - profit post-secondary education chains, of making predatory loans.

In 1914 Congress enacted the Clayton Act55 to strengthen the Sherman Act and included a provision to curb price discrimination and predatory pricing.56 The House Report stated that section 2 of the Clayton Act was expressly designed to prohibit large corporations from slashing prices below the cost of production «with the intent to destroy and make unprofitable the business of their competitors» and with the aim of «acquiring a monopoly in the particular locality or section in which the discriminating price is made.»

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Until the Pope publically and unequivocably states that all allegations of abuse will immediately be referred to local law enforcement, the RCC will be viewed as an evil, predatory inst.itution by a large portion of the world.

But some types of seafood — particularly large, predatory fish such as shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish — can contain high levels of mercury.

In addition to the obvious problems - when most services are provided by a small number of large bus companies - the OFT's five - month probe found many people complaining about «predatory behaviour of incumbent firms designed to eliminate competition from new entrants».

He can point to the wider squeeze, which saw the Greens and Scottish socialists hammered by larger, more predatory parties.

Pike is a widely distributed, long - lived and large keystone predatory fish species that breeds annually after becoming mature.

Just 4 kilometres away on the larger island of Skyros, there are plenty of predatory snakes, mammals and birds to keep lizard numbers down.

Nicholas Longrich of Yale University was examining T. rex bones when he found that four bore large tooth marks that could only have been made by another big predatory dinosaur.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

Swordfish are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill in contrast to the smooth, round bill of the marlins.

Alvarezsaurids were unusual small predatory dinosaurs that had very short but powerfuly built arms that ended in a single large digit.»

Swiss and U.S. American researchers led by the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich have discovered the fossil remains of one of the earliest large - sized predatory fishes of the Triassic period: an approximately 1.8 - meter - long primitive bony fish with long jaws and sharp teeth.

Considering the size of its combs (longer than 12 centimeters, or almost 5 inches) and the overall body proportions of its predatory kin, the shrimplike creature Tamisiocaris borealis (as shown in this artist's reconstruction) may have grown to reach lengths of 61 centimeters (2 feet)-- not large by modern standards but huge for that era.

The small crustaceans, which dine on parasites that infest large, predatory fish, use the dance to attract customers.

Longrich says cannibalism was probably common in predatory dinosaurs, just as modern large carnivores, including bears, komodo dragons and some big cats, often turn cannibal.

«Predatory fish have more difficulty catching larger prey with spiny fins and have problems swallowing them.

Nicholas Longrich of Yale University was examining T. Rex bones for signs that mammals had gnawed on them when he found that four bones bore large tooth marks that could only have been made by another big predatory dinosaur.

But the idea of large, predatory females attacking seemingly helpless males doesn't jibe with our traditional gender stereotypes.

To find out whether some honey bee species can alter these alarms depending on the type of predator, the scientists studied the Asian bees, which must deal with multiple types of predatory, hive - attacking hornets, including the world's largest hornet.

Dunkleosteus grew up to 33 feet long and was the largest of a group of armor - plated predatory fish, the placoderms.