Sentences with phrase «of whale carcasses»

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

«Don't Axe Me» will also feature the first New York presentation of Osedax (2010; made in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne)-- an immersive environment consisting of 16 mm film and painted slide projections inspired by a species of undersea worm that buries into the bones of whale carcasses.

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

The British government also placed scientists aboard whaling ships to make observations of the whale carcasses, collect samples and report back with data back.

«The sheer amount of organic matter that is made available is astonishing,» says deep - sea ecologist Paulo Y. G. Sumida at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, who studies the ecological role of whale carcasses.

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

Investigators first found the worms, which were living in and thriving off of whale carcasses, 10 years ago.

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.

Fat seals were the richest prey, but hungry bears also picked muscle tissue out of seal carcasses and took advantage of a whale that human hunters had caught.

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.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

The vulnerable calves of migrating gray whales are known to be a favorite of the transients near California, and the carcasses of minke whales have been found in the same area.

Since then we've learned that whale carcasses and fallen trees, known as «organic food falls,» are also able to sustain these sulfidic bacteria in the otherwise desert landscape that is the bottom of the sea.

Since Osedax's discovery, the worms have been found on whale carcasses in shallower waters off the coasts of Southern California and Sweden.

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.

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.

That leads them to suggest that the concentration of lumps may have come about when a large number of whales died and then sank to the sea floor, where the carcasses quickly decomposed in the warm, shallow waters but the ambergris — which on its own typically floats — was buried and preserved.

The beached carcasses of 110 long - finned pilot whales and 20 bottle - nosed dolphins were discovered by an abalone diver on the west coast of the island on Monday.

This gruesome procedure is depicted in some detail, along with the decision to force Tom to crawl into the putrid carcass of the whale in order to collect as much oil as possible.

Paddling out into the ocean, she unintentionally comes upon a shark devouring the floating carcass of a dead whale.

Danger beach, the other little beach of St James, was used in the whaling industry during the early 1800s, as a place to haul carcasses.

When fish sources are unavailable, eagles may rely largely on carrion, especially in winter, and they will scavenge carcasses up to the size of whales, though it seems that carcasses of hoofed animals and large fish are preferred.

of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center, take measurements of the Gray whale carcass before beginning necrospy.

The carcass of a 37 - foot - long juvenile Gray whale washed up in the SF Bay on April 21.

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.

Orca packs devouring gray whale calves in Monterey Bay (Courtesy Jodi Frediani) CA 20, a male transient killer whale, floats with the remains of a gray whale calf carcass on April 27, 2013 in Monterey Bay, Calif..

(Courtesy Jodi Frediani) CA 20, a male transient killer whale, floats with the remains of a gray whale calf carcass on April 27, 2013 in Monterey Bay, Calif..

«Ayeaah,» says the captain, usually a man of few words, «seven polar bears eating an old whale carcass.

As Fleitas writes, recent months have not been kind to the Chilean coast, which has played host to washed - up carcasses of over 300 whales, 8,000 tons of sardines, and nearly 12 percent of the country's annual salmon catch, to name a few.

There is a long list of observations of bears on land actively hunting walruses, reindeer and fish, foraging on berries or scavenging whale carcasses.