Sentences with phrase «of eels»

Bolling is honored at the Memorial Church of Harvard University and by «Bolling Grove,» a redwood grove on the Avenue of the Giants, paralleling Highway 101 along the south Fork of the Eel River in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California.
Average visibility is 30 ft. to 50 ft. with possibilities of up to 80 ft. Explore volcanic rock formations and swim among white tip sharks, giant schools of grunt, yellowtails, spotted eagle rays, turtles, stingrays, angel fish, octopus, sea horses, starfish, frog fish and many species of eels on a comfortable 34 - foot yacht.
There are also a variety of eels, including morays, which can be spotted in these waters.
It perhaps takes a bit too long to get there (DeHaan spends the majority of the elongated second act of the film hobbling his way through endless corridors looking for secrets and mostly just finding eels — seriously, there are a lot of eels in this movie), but there's an allure to the film that is often undeniable.
DYERVILLE GIANT — Within Humboldt Redwoods State Park, along the Founders Grove nature trail, are two special examples of the many giant redwoods found near the South Fork of the Eel River.
Over five different types of eels can be found here as well as moorish idols, puffers, surgeonfish, and occasional mantas and stingrays.
Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.
In our area we are having a major die off of the Eel Grass in the local estuary, I've heard that the loss is as much as 80 percent.
Pamela Palmater is a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation, a lawyer, a mother, an academic, and a politician, having put in a bid for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations in 2012.
To measure the energy output of a curling eel, Catania rigged up a sort of eel chew toy by attaching a dead fish to a piece of wire.
New research reveals that swollen tissue on the back of the eel - like creatures (Petromyzon marinus, pictured), known as rope tissue, heats up when a male encounters a female.
Paradoxically, because Lake Tanganyika is already considered the poster child for studies of evolutionary adaptive radiation — only not because of its eels.
Fossilised soft tissue from an extinct group of eel - like creatures, called conodonts, has yielded support for the idea that vertebrates existed 40 million years earlier than previously believed.
Dane DeHaan is an ambitious young Wall Street type checked into a remote health retreat — or «wellness centre» — where he finds himself diagnosed with a mystery illness and prescribed a cure that seems to involve quite a lot of eels.
This hodge - podge of dental torture, putative madness, and a very clumsy use of eels as metaphor wears out its welcome well before the final credits roll, skittering at the end, and pell - mell at that, towards an ending that is painfully obvious and even more painfully trite.
The places this thing goes in its third act are nuts, and it single - handedly give a legion of eel CGI artists more than a few rent checks to fall back on.
Our accommodations are just steps away from Fortuna's Riverwalk, where you can stroll or bike a scenic two - mile stretch along the bank of the Eel River.
«The entire body of work looks at that idea of the migration of eels back and forth, to the ocean to breed and back into fresh water,» Hlobo says.
If you're curious, you can find out how to say «My hovercraft is full of eels» in a great many languages (including Klingon — spoken here) thanks to a page on Omniglot.
The European Commission hopes better protection of eels at all stages of life will help restore dwindling populations.
Studies of wave forms and what might be the tail of an eel, or the labia of what Miss O'Keeffe, wanting to avoid anatomical associations, titled «Music» in a painting of similarly cave - like apertures.
In these human - sized examples of eel - like electronics, tiny conductive nanotubes were spun onto an elastic fiber that works like the eel plates to make high voltage threads out of tiny, low voltage material.
Speaking of ugly, I leave you in the capable hands of Eels, performing Ugly Love off of 2005's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations.
Rest assured gentle readers, First Things will not rest as we bring you continuing coverage of the nature of eels in all strands of Christianity, and if possible its fellow Abrahamic faith traditions.
After disemboweling hundreds of eels to find their testes, Freud threw up his hands and eventually moved on to study the human psyche, perhaps slippery enough.
The European Commission today released a recovery plan that calls for careful management of eel catches at all stages of the life cycle.
While sorting through a shipment of fish trawled off the coast of Guinea in West Africa and sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Christopher Martinez's attention was brought to a pair of these eels.
But to shed more light on this, the growth of these eels would have to be studied in captivity.
However, the tail end of the eel is actually quite important, Catania's new study shows.
A naturalist's tale from 200 years ago of eels jumping out of a river in the Amazon and attacking horses may be true — the behaviour has been caught on film
Based on the directions the eels would have gone in the Sargasso Sea, the researchers concluded the majority of the eels seemed to be swimming in the direction of what would have been the Gulf Stream from various points on their migration route.
Michael Hansen, a biologist at Aarhus University in Denmark who was not involved in the study, agrees the age of the eels is the largest potential source of error, but says the results make sense biologically, which convinces him it was not a major issue.
«We picked that life stage of eel because it was what we could get our hands on: eels that had just moved from ocean habitats into estuaries,» he says.
After spotting one crab crawling on the body of an eel in photographs, Lemaitre suggests that these crabs could be acting as cleaners, eating mucus or other bits on the eel's body.
In Elkhorn Slough, south of Santa Cruz, otters have recolonized estuary habitat and appear to be thriving in unexpected ways, while boosting the health of eel grass and salt marsh ecosystems.
The second carcass of the eel - like species was discovered on Friday on a beach in Oceanside, a city police dispatcher said.
Kwok notes that she was intrigued by studies of the eels that had «started as a spontaneous side project.»
When you get into the science of the eel and you find that its body is constructed of all these little tiny batteries, of sorts, that are powered biologically, that is where the real interest is,» says Carnell.
A stand out scene is one involving a huge tank and a bed of eels (see below), one that only appears on - screen for a couple of minutes, but took weeks to film, the actor completely submerged throughout.
Slimy weeds brushed against his belly and the thought of the eels waiting below in the mud made him shudder.
The latter throng the rows of stalls in the bric - a-brac market or listen to the amusing sales patter of the Eel sellers.
BC in Sydney, where there were literally dozens of them on every piece of eel grass and bull kelp stalk and I kid you not, I would probably be under - estimating when I say thousands of them in view.
Dozens of eels can usually be seen at the openings of small caves.
I'm scared of eels, not sure what to do about that one!
As you approach them you will see successive waves of eels retreat into their protective sand flat shelters.
A varied collection of eels also emerge from their shelters in the reef.
After a briefing at dusk you enter the warm, clear water in search of eels, octopus, lobsters, sleeping parrot fish and even THE THING.
In fact, as you can see in the photo below, I came very close to a nurse shark that I never even noticed, since I was still checking out my photos of the eel.
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