Sentences with phrase «whale carcasses during»

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.

«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.

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

Danger beach, the other little beach of St James, was used in the whaling industry during the early 1800s, as a place to haul carcasses.