Sentences with phrase «on whale carcasses»

They sink to the ocean floor and provide ecosystems and food supply for about 60 different aquatic species which can only survive on whale carcasses.

They have been known to attack dolphins and feed on whale carcasses.

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

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.

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One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

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.

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

A 35 - foot Baird's beaked whale carcass washed up on the beach at Point Reyes National Seashore in California earlier this week, giving scientists the opportunity to study this rare species.

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.

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..

The first trailer beings with dead crabs curled on a dried - up beach and ends with a panning shot that shows several whale carcasses miles away from the ocean.

Even their carcasses, dropping to the seafloor, provide habitat for many species that only exist on these «whale falls.»

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