Sentences with phrase «whale carcasses»

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

In the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature, the researchers describe four newly discovered species living near deep - sea cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, and whale carcasses off the coasts of California and Mexico.

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

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

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

Bienhold and her team are helping to clarify how life travels around the ocean, and how amazingly well - adapted niche creatures can actually use organic - rich oases like whale carcasses as convenient stepping stones between vents which are few and far between.

Grizzly bears have been chasing polar bears away from whale carcasses like this one at Kaktovik, Alaska, despite the grizzlies» smaller size.

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.

Our guides have helped recover a rare beaked whale carcass, helped in whale necropsies, and collected invertebrate collections for their exhibits.

of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center, take measurements of the Gray whale carcass before beginning necrospy.

As Crispin T.S. Little writes in this month's Scientific American, a single whale carcass can support these specialized ecosystems for decades.

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.

, but when push comes to shove they'll eat caribou, walruses, nuts, birds, and even stinky, rotten whale carcasses.

Between 1970 and 2007, sixty - seven right whale carcasses were reported.

Surrounded by a colony of penguins, a beached whale carcass, caracara birds and a herd of sheep, she spends hours writing in a sunroom so thoroughly transparent she feels part of the weather.

A humpback whale carcass washed ashore at a Peninsula beach sometime during the past few days, according to an eyewitness.

When the game was initially unveiled at this year's E3, all we got was cryptic CG - animated footage of a naked Norman Reedus holding a baby and crying amidst whale carcasses.

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.

The Dallas artist's meticulously recreated killer - whale carcass wowed them at the Whitney Biennial in 2004.

«Ayeaah,» says the captain, usually a man of few words, «seven polar bears eating an old whale carcass.

Dr. Ohsumi says that only whale carcasses can provide «ear plugs for age determination studies; reproductive organs for examination of maturation, reproductive cycles and reproductive rates; stomachs for analysis of food consumption; and blubber thickness as a measure of condition.»

«We rarely see more than one fin whale carcass every couple of years.»

«In the meantime we are mapping and tracking reported whale carcasses, collecting water samples to look for harmful algal blooms and recording changes in sea water temperature,» she said.

Researchers sank this gray - whale carcass off the California coast in 1998 to study whale - fall ecosystems.

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

Investigators first found the worms, which were living in and thriving off of whale carcasses, 10 years ago.

To make the discovery, announced in May, researchers led by Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution collected tissue samples from whale carcasses during a legal commercial whaling operation in Iceland.

On April 20, the Center responded to reports that a 37 - foot - long, male Gray whale carcass was floating in the San Francisco Bay between Fort Mason and Alcatraz.

By studying whale - falls from offshore California, Japan and Sweden, researchers have documented over 400 species that live in and around the whale carcasses, feeding off the bubbler, meat, and exposed bones.

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.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

Since then we've learned that whale carcasses and fallen trees, known as «organic food falls,» are also able to sustain these sulfidic bacteria in the otherwise desert landscape that is the bottom of the sea.

«The sheer amount of organic matter that is made available is astonishing,» says deep - sea ecologist Paulo Y. G. Sumida at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, who studies the ecological role of whale carcasses.

Modern - day provannid snails inhabit ephemeral and remote deep - sea environments — cold methane seeps; hydrothermal vents that spew superheated, chemical - rich water; and whale carcasses — and their prehistoric forebears probably did the same.

The British government also placed scientists aboard whaling ships to make observations of the whale carcasses, collect samples and report back with data back.

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

There's one personal harrowing moment when he's thrust inside a hollowed out whale carcass to extract more blubber, but that's the only personal perspective offered through young Tom.

«Don't Axe Me» will also feature the first New York presentation of Osedax (2010; made in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne)-- an immersive environment consisting of 16 mm film and painted slide projections inspired by a species of undersea worm that buries into the bones of 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.

Over the next two weeks, reports continued to come in from boaters, fishermen and pilots relaying more sightings of whale carcasses.