Sentences with phrase «of whale bones»

I had heard about one study of whale bones on Northern Greenland that indicated there were ice free summers or mostly ice free summers around the same time 6000 - 8000 years before present....

On board the Harbor Breeze boat, guests will have the opportunity to learn more about whales as they explore the Aquarium's whale artifacts, such as different types of whale bones and baleen.

The anthropology museum will give a lot of insights into the local culture, while the marine museum has the 2nd largest collection of whale bones in the world.

• The Gables — The Gables foundations were made of Whale bones originally Dining is an integral part of the Eagles Nest experience.

But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

Not exact matches

Thus the «pentadactyl» [five bone — BH / BT] limb pattern is found in the arm of a man, the wing of a bird, and flipper of a whale — and this is held to ind - icate their common origin.

Dines et al. show that the reduced pelvic bones of cetaceans (marine mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins) may fall into the latter category.

«For a long time, our comprehension of whale evolutionary history was hampered by the fact that most paleontologists were searching for bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert says.

Putting the sperm whale's bones together are self - described whale gypsies Andrew Konnerth, a biologist, and his artist - jeweler wife of 57 years, Jean, who travel the world reassembling whale skeletons.

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.

Designed to show the public the meticulous process of slotting the whale's bones together, the cetacean work in progress is also a much sought after prize for the museum.

But at least the bones are clean and white and, unlike those of the blue whale skeleton, grease free.

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.

For those of you who have been following the story of Bone Dusters Paleo Ale, the beer made with yeast living on a 35 - million - year old whale fossil, there's exciting news out of Lost Rhino Brewery today.

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.

When a colleague told him that a group of masons had found ancient whale bones in a stone block near El Sheikh Fadl in Egypt, he resolved to find the quarry.

Paleontologist Glenn Storrs of the Cincinnati Museum Center says vomiting is not an unusual dietary adaptation among carnivores — sperm whales regurgitate the hard beaks of octupuses they devour, and owls throw up bones after swallowing mice whole.

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.

Pyenson had already surveyed living whale proportions and determined that the size of the whale correlated with the width of its cheek bones.

Then, in 2005, other co-authors collected some whale bone and teeth on Palmyra Atoll, which lies southeast of the Hawaiian Islands and 2600 kilometers northeast of the Gilbert Islands.

, sometimes endearingly referred to as «zombie worm,» was devouring the bones of a decaying whale when it was discovered off the California coast on the Monterey Bay seabed.

Besides fossil bones of the skull and mandibles, the rock containing the skeleton showed perfect casts of the whale baleen.

Not only did the researchers find the fossils among the remains of undeniably aquatic animals — such as fish, sea lions, dolphins, and whales — but also this sloth had the bones of a swimmer.

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.

Although the arrangement of bones in its face and skull indicate that Janjucetus is most closely related to modern - day baleen whales, the species had teeth and not baleen.

Moreover, the bones in the front part of a baleen whale's lower jaw, or mandible, aren't fused as they are in other mammals.

On the seafloor, dozens of unique marine bacteria, worms and crustaceans make their homes within rotting bones of dead whales.

Thewissen uncovered some isolated fossil whale astragali a few years ago, but those bones were fragmentary and showed a puzzling combination of whale and artiodactyl features.

The remains include several skulls, snout fragments and a number of postcranial bones representing two species of primitive whales known as pakicetids: wolf - size Pakicetus attocki and fox - size Ichthyolestes pinfoldi.

But no one has seen Osedax burrows on the bones of the marine reptiles that came before whales.

The same thing is found at present - day whale falls during the sulfophilic stage — the last and longest part of organic - fall succession, when bacteria produce hydrogen sulfide as they break down what's left of the bones.

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.

Indohyus is a close relative of whales, and the structure of its bones and chemistry of its teeth indicate that it spent much time in water.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).

Outside of a small circle of experts in whale anatomy, he said, the common consensus, even among marine biologists, was that the pelvis was a useless bone — one that would disappear, given a few million years more of evolution.

«People that really know the reproductive biology of whales and dolphins already know and have known that these pelvic bones are an anchor point for reproductive organs,» co-corresponding author and Collections Manager of Mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Jim Dines said.

By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.

The 14C ages were corrected for mass - dependent fractionation with measured δ13C values, 33 and compared with samples of Pleistocene whale bone or calcite (backgrounds, > 48 14C kyr BP), late Holocene bison bone (∼ 1,850 14C BP), late AD 1800s cow bone and OX - 2 oxalic acid standards for calibration.

Museum scientists have found that Osedax worms, which feed on the bones of whale carcasses, can live in shallow Mediterranean waters.

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The Cannes Film Festival in May saw the premiere of the French film Rust and Bone, and critics were quick to praise previous Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard for her work as a double - amputee whale trainer (if that doesn't qualify as «Oscar bait,» I'm not sure what does).

On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale - the fossil that provides a missing link in our evolution - Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston.

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.

Peoples of the high northern latitudes (Greenland, Alaska, Russia, and Canada) were the first to invent wood - or whale bone - framed boats covered with a watertight skin.

With very little to distinguish the game between its predecessor, and more fat on the bone than a blue whale, Shadow of War started out promising, and I quickly felt very much at home, but one game and 15 - 20hours into its sequel and the novelty had finally worn off.

The first level also introduces a bad - ass new enemy type, the Butcher, who wields a massive saw designed to cut through the bones and flesh of giant whales that can fire blades and block your attacks.