Sentences with phrase «of larger sharks»

There is always a chance to catch a glimpse of larger sharks such as hammerheads, tigers and gray reefs passing by in the distance, but far better odds of running into sea turtles or the pods of spinner dolphins that frequent calm bays.

Adult whale sharks were not seen at the site, which may serve as a «staging ground» for juveniles before they move on to regional aggregations of larger sharks.

Melissa Carbone, winner of the largest Shark Tank deal in the show's history and CEO of immersive - entertainment company TenThirtyOne Productions, shared with me the key characteristic of a true entrepreneur during a KCAA Money Talk interview last week:

One of the largest shark species, Greenland sharks grow from around 40 centimetres at birth to over 5 metres.

«The unsustainable bycatch of turtles, sharks and birds in ocean fisheries, and the rapid decline of large sharks from illegal finning are major concerns worldwide.

Follow the journey of a large shark specimen from a beach in Northumberland to being sealed in our spirit collection.

Every year dozens of these large sharks arrive to the sandy shallows just offshore.

Not exact matches

To believe that people like Schwarzman or Trump, or Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (net worth US$ 2.5 billion) or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose net worth is a modest US$ 150 million), will leave Canada alone, that they will look for a better deal with everyone except their second - largest trading partner, is not just naïve — it's like jumping into a pool filled with great white sharks because you've convinced yourself they're vegetarians.

The sharks are always disappointed with people who have an unclear idea of their profits — especially if their guessed numbers have a large range like from $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 as it shows how poorly they knows their own business.

The Australian Greens have urged environment minister Greg Hunt to listen to the large group of scientists and experts rejecting Colin Barnett's shark cull.

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

I haven't gotten to watch much of the Blues this postseason, and I'm assuming that they were a little sluggish in Game 1, but I thought the Sharks were a little off too and we were dominating for large stretches, especially in the 2nd.

Sauber is the final team to showcase what they've done with the rule changes, going for larger numbers on the nose and the driver name abbreviations at the top of the shark fin.

Ferrari has gone a bit retro with their larger numbers, using white backgrounds (just like classic Ferrari F1 machines of the 70s) and there's a red outline on the shark fin.

It features a large colorful boat with interactive water features, a tot slide, arched rain «showers» with shark fins, barrels of water and so much more.

Some types of fish contain larger amounts of mercury, so you need to stay away from the shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish.

In the study, scientists documented a lemon shark's ability to expel a large metal fish stringer out of its body cavity over the course of 435 days.

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

However, while working with Michael Meyer, a marine scientist from the Department of Environmental Affairs, and shark conservationist Michael Rutzen from Shark Diving Unlimited, Dr Andreotti realised that the software needed some more tweaking if it were to fit the ideal of sustaining a large database for the long - term monitoring of the white shark populashark conservationist Michael Rutzen from Shark Diving Unlimited, Dr Andreotti realised that the software needed some more tweaking if it were to fit the ideal of sustaining a large database for the long - term monitoring of the white shark populaShark Diving Unlimited, Dr Andreotti realised that the software needed some more tweaking if it were to fit the ideal of sustaining a large database for the long - term monitoring of the white shark populashark population.

I looked up, and there was a very large shark directly in front of me, and it was heading right for me.

Using their sandpaper skin as a food processor could help baby sharks tackle large prey such as crustaceans, the researchers suggest in a report published online 20 March in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

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Nifong dug into history and found news reports from the late 1800s that described battles of large masses of sharks and alligators after flooding and high tides washed the predators together.

«The frequency of one predator eating the other is really about size dynamic,» Nifong said «If a small shark swims by an alligator and the alligator feels like it can take the shark down, it will, but we also reviewed some old stories about larger sharks eating smaller alligators.»

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

Scaling their model up to a shark 21 feet long and weighing 7,300 pounds — akin to the largest of living white sharks — they found that such an animal opening its jaws to a 35 degree angle could squeeze its prey with almost 4,000 pounds of force.

Large sharks continue to dwindle while other species, such as clam - eating cownose rays, have exploded in the absence of predators.

Using only the DNA from sloughed - off cells floating in the ocean, scientists have been able to determine the population size and genetic properties of one of the world's largest and most mysterious animals: the whale shark.

Measures including the current prohibition of commercial fishing from large vessels within 50 nautical miles from the coast have resulted in some protection, but the researchers say that this new information highlights that hammerhead sharks may still be in danger, due to their use of both coastal and offshore waters during early life stages.

DePaul University paleobiologist Kenshu Shimada's rendering of a Pseudomegachasma shark hypothesizes it had a large mouth with many small teeth.

Dr Erica Hendy, Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles in the School of Earth Sciences, added: «However, you simply can't tag a coral larvae to follow where it ends up as you would a large marine animal like a turtle or shark.

Previously, researchers had noticed that scent - processing areas of the brain are larger in shark species that do a lot of navigating.

«White sharks are the largest and most charismatic of the predator sharks, and the poster child for sharks and the oceans in general,» said Burgess, whose research program is based at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus.

In fact, the camera recorded a definitive transit of large numbers of sharks from the forereef into lagoons, which hasn't been directly observed at this site using other methods.

A white shark's liver is its largest visceral organ, and, at its maximum, 90 percent of its volume comes from high - energy lipids.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

Meekan's team thinks riding on top of bigger rays might help pink whiprays look larger than they really are, and might break up their silhouettes — deterring predators such as hammerhead sharks.

Like other sharks and large rays, whale sharks likely have small litters of pups and are slow to reach sexual maturity.

The top ocean predator of the time, its prey could have included early sharks, large nautiluslike mollusks, arthropods and other placoderms, Westneat says.

In the largest study on the genetics of whale sharks conducted to date, researchers found that the world's biggest fish likely exist in 2 distinct populations with minimal connectivity between the Indo - Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.

Whale sharks are the world's largest fish with confirmed measurements of more than 12 meters (40 feet) long and more than 18 metric tons.

Gabriel added, «Our study shows that with a little bit of training and a good sampling design, recreational divers collect very useful data that can be used to monitor shark populations over long periods of time and across large spatial areas.

Some sharks are larger, but their skeletons are made of cartilage not bone.

A new study by an international team of scientists, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, warns that many large fish species, including many of the sharks and rays of Europe, are threatened with extinction.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

«Tiger Sharks: Banks and Borders» is a film about the connectivity between habitats and the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation researchers» efforts to shed light on the relatively unknown movements of large marine predators.

For example, the scientists think the sharks traveled in their mixed - species groups for most of the day for protection against tiger sharks, which are much larger and often prey on their smaller peers (much as herding animals like gazelles stay together for protection against hungry lions).

It is one of the few places on Earth where large pelagic fishes (tuna, billfish and sharks) have not yet been severely depleted.