Sentences with phrase «whale bones»

The anthropology museum will give a lot of insights into the local culture, while the marine museum has the 2nd largest collection of whale bones in the world.

We conclude that these results offer emergent evidence of an alternative foraging strategy within this population: «coastal» bears, which remain near to shore for much of the year and use bowhead whale bone piles when they are present.

Telemetry data showed that polar bears with 15N - depleted hair sections were located on multiple dates near known subsistence - harvested bowhead whale bone piles and had spent 90 % of the prior year within 50 km of the shore.

Among the many curiosities depicted are a village built entirely from whale bones and a stupefied, beached fin whale straddled by 15 inquisitive monks.

The evidence for this comes from megalodon tooth marks found on whale bones.

Visit 73 ft. Blue whale bones display and CV Starr 26 ft. orca skeleton.

When a colleague told him that a group of masons had found ancient whale bones in a stone block near El Sheikh Fadl in Egypt, he resolved to find the quarry.

Osedax, or snotworms, bore into old whale bones.

The 14C ages were corrected for mass - dependent fractionation with measured δ13C values, 33 and compared with samples of Pleistocene whale bone or calcite (backgrounds, > 48 14C kyr BP), late Holocene bison bone (∼ 1,850 14C BP), late AD 1800s cow bone and OX - 2 oxalic acid standards for calibration.

• The Gables — The Gables foundations were made of Whale bones originally Dining is an integral part of the Eagles Nest experience.

Beachcombing for whale bones, dune hiking, and bird watching is excellent.

[citation needed] Whale bones were used for many purposes.

Juliette Dumas» monumental column - like sculptures are inspired by whale bones, the largest skeletal structure in nature.

In a 2009 interview with local news media, in a response to a question about the profitability of whaling, the owner of Iceland's fin whaling company indicated that while whale meat is the most valuable product, processed whale products such as melted fat and pulverized whale bone could be turned into «meat meal and then mixed with other meal...» (link is in Icelandic).

One - of - a-kind objects — whether it be a gently curved whale bone or oversized gears — inspire all of Huniford's designs.

From whale bones, 42 Arctic driftwood, 26 and patterns of Arctic shoreline erosion, 25 we also know that during the Holocene, Arctic summer sea ice retreated 1000 kilometers further north than seen today.

On Day 5, when we were looking at the Blue Whale bones, I was made aware that two large Weddell Seals were snoozing nearby.

Bears with hair section δ15N values at or above the mean spent no time near bowhead whale bone piles and less than half of the year nearshore.

I had heard about one study of whale bones on Northern Greenland that indicated there were ice free summers or mostly ice free summers around the same time 6000 - 8000 years before present....

But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

Then, in 2005, other co-authors collected some whale bone and teeth on Palmyra Atoll, which lies southeast of the Hawaiian Islands and 2600 kilometers northeast of the Gilbert Islands.

The hairs — found tangled around a whale bone comb — are the only known human remains from the earliest people to settle in Greenland, known as the Saqqaq culture.

They compared 20 tissue samples taken from modern (1865 to 1995) whale bones and teeth with 23 more ancient samples, dating from 2800 to 6800 years ago, that were collected from archaeological sites and dredging operations.

Wine bottles, whale bones, and abalone shells border paths meandering through the sheltered garden.

On board the Harbor Breeze boat, guests will have the opportunity to learn more about whales as they explore the Aquarium's whale artifacts, such as different types of whale bones and baleen.

Peoples of the high northern latitudes (Greenland, Alaska, Russia, and Canada) were the first to invent wood - or whale bone - framed boats covered with a watertight skin.

Photographs of a series of what might be called «sculptural vignettes» bring together objects and images — including archival and vintage personal photographs, actual things (e.g., a whale bone, a ceramic frog, a pomegranate), maps, celestial landscapes, and fragments of writing on paper, among others — many of which Stuart collected and have been with her for years.