Sentences with phrase «seals off ice»

Never - before - filmed sequences will include the growth of a saltwater icicle (brinicle) that freezes everything it touches and orca whales working as a team to create killer waves that wash seals off ice floes.»

What doesn't make sense is: gigantic mega-brained predators patterned like pirate flags who eat everything from sea otters to whales and spend hours batting thousand - pound sea lions into the air specifically to beat them up before drowning and shredding them; who wash seals off ice and crush porpoises and slurp swimming deer and moose — indeed, seemingly any mammal they come across in the water; yet who have never so much as upended a single kayak and who appear — maybe — to bring lost dogs home.

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore.

The orcas were able to successfully knock the seal off the ice, and just as they were closing in for the kill, a magnificent humpback whale suddenly rose up out of the water beneath the seal.

Not exact matches

We walked along the beach, where he chased the waves a little too closely and ended up with soaking wet jeans; visited the Page Museum, where we watched volunteers meticulously dust off newly discovered fossils; stopped for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, where I nearly single - handedly polished off an entire Hula Pie ice cream dessert by myself; meandered out along a pier, where a practically blind seagull almost flew straight into my guy's head; and drove through the rain to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where we chuckled at the seals in the synchronized swimming routine.

When the cave is not in use, the ice is sealed off with steel shutters to prevent it from oozing out.

This may well have been the case: the Norwegian sealing vessel Samson, which had no radio, was firing off rockets as it weaved its way through the ice.

Ice that thick effectively seals off the surface — and its potentially life - giving chemicals — from the water below.

This could be good news for any life under the ice: such movements would deliver organic molecules on the surface to oceans that are otherwise completely sealed off.

In contrast to other mammals in Fennoscandia, the Norwegian lemming may have survived the last Ice Age in the far north, sealed off from the rest of the world by gigantic ice sheeIce Age in the far north, sealed off from the rest of the world by gigantic ice sheeice sheets.

When the snow gets packed down by subsequent layers, the space between the crystals is eventually sealed off, trapping a small sample of the atmosphere in newly formed ice.

Finally, when the coast was clear, the seal was able to safely swim off to another, more secure ice floe.

Finally, Clapper the Seal is an animal buddy that serves two purposes; After jumping on him, he will either cool off a body of lava, allowing Diddy and Dixie to swim in the cooled water, or freeze a pool of extremely cold water into ice, allowing the heroes to walk across it.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

When the snow gets packed down by subsequent layers, the space between the crystals is eventually sealed off, trapping a small sample of the atmosphere in newly formed ice.

Heat is being advected into the bulk of that ice, so the bulk of the ice is not sealed off.

In particular, there are alot of complications in determining the age of the air sample relative to the age of the ice it is in, due to precisely when the ice seals off and becomes non-porous.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

Unable to hunt seals on the melting ice, hungry polar bears have been coming into villages to feed off scraps and bones during the annual whale hunt.

Air in the snow / firn phase remains in contact with surface air until it turns to ice and seals off air bubbles from further mixing with surface air.

The air has been sealed off in the bubbles when the ice was laid down, and extracted from cores drilled deep within the layered ice deposits.

And low ice extents off Canada's East Coast meant a second consecutive year of hardship for the Harp Seal population — the seal pups are born and raised on the sea Seal population — the seal pups are born and raised on the sea seal pups are born and raised on the sea ice.

Sea ice conditions determine when sealers begin hunting in areas that include the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the much larger hunt on the Front off northern Newfoundland.