Sentences with phrase «sperm whale skeletons»
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.
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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.
Pyenson et al. report that the site, Cerro Ballena, dates to the Late Miocene period and consists of over 40 skeletons of marine vertebrates, including rorqual and sperm whales, seals, predatory fishes, and fascinating, now completely extinct, species such as walrus - whales and aquatic sloths.
By Mike Collett - White LONDON (Reuters)- The skeleton of a sperm whale is competing with the brain of a cow for this year's Turner Prize, Britain's annual competition of contemporary art that regularly triggers debate about what is art and what is no
«Leviathan Edge» (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.
By Mike Collett - White LONDON (Reuters)- The skeleton of a sperm whale is competing with the brain of a cow for this year's Turner Prize, Britain's annual competition of contemporary art that regularly triggers debate about what is art and what is not.