Sentences with phrase «tiger shark»
Last fall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an Art Deco Loch Ness monster appeared in the river, 100,000 paper airplanes were launched from rooftops of downtown buildings, and a tiger shark sculpted of colored ice lay in a refrigerated truck parked outside the Gerald R. Ford Museum.
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The work, a 14 - ft tiger shark encased in formaldehyde, caused a sensation when it was first shown at Saatchi's gallery in London in 1992, and became a symbol for the wave of provocative «Young British Artists».
The new shark, estimated at up to # 6m, is The Kingdom, a tiger shark in a black framed tank, described by Barker as «majestic».
Principal showcase items included The Golden Calf, an animal with gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde, and The Kingdom, another preserved tiger shark.
A group of works by Damien Hirst, including his famous tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, as well as pieces by fellow British artists Tracey Emin, Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marc Quinn, and Chris Ofili, among many others, are to be temporarily removed from display at the Saatchi Gallery, Cristina Ruiz reports in the Art Newspaper.
The result (which cost Saatchi # 50,000) was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a tiger shark (which cost # 6,000) pickled in formaldehyde in a glass case, which was exhibited in 1992 as part of the first Young British Arts (YBA) Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery of contemporary art in London.
In 1991, Saatchi, an advertising mogul, commissioned Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a taxidermied 14 - foot tiger shark suspended in a tank filled with formaldehyde.
The work developed an idea Hirst first put forth in 1991 when he embalmed a tiger shark in The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
The Kingdom (lot 5, Evening sale) tiger shark, glass, steel, silicone and formaldehyde solution with steel plinth 214 by 383.6 by 141.8 cm.
In 1992, the Saatchi Gallery displayed the ground breaking show Young British Artists in which Hirst exhibited Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, consisting of a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
Is it just us or is it a little ironic that Damien Hirst is showing at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, especially since included is one of his famous formaldehyde shark tanks (although this current specimen, a great white was apparently already dead, unlike the tiger shark that rocketed him to fame in 1992)?
Christopher Wool has continued and enhanced the Pop tradition of word painting begun by Pop artist Robert Indiana, twenty years before; Damien Hirst placed a pickled tiger shark in a cage and called it The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; Richard Wilson filled a room with sump oil and called it 20:50.
It was probably when I walked into the Saatchi gallery in 1992 and saw a tiger shark apparently swimming towards me, mouth open.
Amongst these was «Death Explained» (2007), a tiger shark bisected longitudinally, for which Hirst made fabrication plans in 1991.
I had no job and didn't know where I was going in life when I walked into the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 and saw a tiger shark swimming towards me.
Divers also come across barracudas and sharks of many kinds - including blacktip, whitetip, and potentially even the predatory tiger shark.
Watch in awe as bull sharks, lemon sharks, reef sharks and the occasional tiger shark come in for a feed.
One of the resort's dive boats will take you and your dive guides to a special site inside the lagoon where numerous bull sharks, silver tips, grey nurse and the occasional tiger shark meet to be hand - fed by dive masters from Aquatrek or Beqa Adventure Divers.
Aqua - Trek now operates the Ultimate Shark Encounter on nearby Lake Reef offering the best visibility, longer bottom time, a larger shark population and more regular tiger shark sightings!
Beqa Adventure Divers will take us out to shark reef, where we will be diving with as many as 70 bull sharks at a time, with the occasional tiger shark showing up for a visit.
Favourite fish is the tiger shark because I want to be one in my next life!
While a 14 - foot tiger shark may have taken her left arm during a tragic attack in 2003, Hamilton triumphed, going on to become a writer, philanthropist, activist and, most recently, the third - place winner of CBS» 25th season of «The Amazing Race» with her husband, Adam Dirks.
There were a lot of eagle rays seen swooping along the reef and even a tiger shark was spotted in the open ocean.
Large sharks such as the tiger shark and great hammerhead shark prey on the spotted eagle ray.
You might even see tiger shark or sea turtle if you are lucky!
Then there's Cabo Pulmo — a remote national marine sanctuary with coral reefs teeming with parrotfish, bull sharks and the occasional tiger shark too.
Hamilton of course was the subject of the 2011 movie Soul Surfer, which chronicled her life after losing her arm at age 13 when she was a attacked by a 15 - foot tiger shark (AnnaSophia Robb played her).
they don't even look like sharks.The tiger shark shown at the beginning of the movie isn't at all like a tiger shark!
Then, one fateful Halloween morning, the wave - riding teen was taking part in a national surf competition when a 14 - foot - long tiger shark emerged from the depths and changed her life in the blink of an eye.
When she runs afoul of an overly inquisitive tiger shark, Zombie sinks to the level of a third - rate Jaws rip - off (by 1979, the Italian film industry was no stranger to these).
During a morning surf session, she was attacked by at 14 - foot tiger shark, and lost her left arm.
The team analyzed 30 fossil sand tiger shark teeth exhumed from Banks Island and 19 modern sand tiger shark teeth from specimens caught in Delaware Bay bordered by Delaware and New Jersey.
The study indicates the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark, a member of the lamniform group of sharks that includes today's great white, thresher and mako sharks, was thriving in the brackish water of the western Arctic Ocean back then.
To learn more about such gnashing, the student mounted four to 10 teeth from a tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), a sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), a silky shark (C. falciformis), and a sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) onto separate sawing blades.
Already they have discovered a tiger shark that wandered 300 miles from an island offshore just to snack at Cabo Pulmo before heading back out.
In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.
In the past, his group has scanned gars, an eel, a bowhead whale fetus, and even a 2.5 - meter bigeye sand tiger shark (which didn't completely fit inside the scanner).
An international team that includes University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers found behavioral evidence that tiger sharks prefer to opportunistically scavenge on dead or weakened green turtles rather than actively hunting healthy individuals despite more opportunities to do so.
In theory, loggerhead turtles should reduce their exposure at the surface in regions of high habitat overlap with tiger sharks.
He said it's what certain species of sharks do, especially bull and tiger sharks.
«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»
In this way, tiger sharks are similar to terrestrial carnivores, such as hyenas and polar bears, which will selectively scavenge when the opportunity arises.»
During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.
Likewise, when tiger sharks are actively hunting turtles, they stalk their prey from deep below to launch a stealthy attack.
They researchers found surfacing of both tiger sharks and green turtles was highest where they overlapped in core home range, closest to the island, and surfacing also increased for both animals with increasing proximity to the shoreline.
The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.
The study, conducted off the coast of Australia during the turtle nesting season, also found the behavior of healthy green turtles suggests that they do not perceive tiger sharks as a major threat during nesting season.
The study revealed that tiger sharks undergo seasonal movements to take advantage of turtles nesting off the Carolinas during the summer.
Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish
Photos from Australia's controversial shark extermination show that released tiger sharks are also dying — both from the stress of capture and improper handling