Howbeit he abode amid his beaked, seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host. |
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A world away, off the South Shetland Islands at 60 degrees south, the Arnoux's beaked whale surfaces on steep southern seas. |
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I didn't actually look up but there's a particular creature amongst the whales, a beaked whale, do you have that listed? |
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The twenty species of beaked whales known by 1997 were grouped into six genera. |
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A dark shadow was cast in front of them in the shape of a large, beaked, winged animal. |
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Eagle-eyed residents have been craning their necks skyward to catch a glimpse of the beaked bandit but, so far, to no avail. |
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The large beaked nose framed by drooping shaggy eyebrows emphasizes his ethnicity. |
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In September 2002, a group of beaked whales beached themselves in the Canary Islands. |
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At the time 14 beaked whales became beached on the same day that U.S. Navy destroyers where engaged in a sonar exercise. |
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Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken. |
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These consist of 10 diadelphous stamens and a bent, bearded, and beaked style. |
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Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines. |
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In this spectacle thirty beaked ships, triremes or biremes, and a large number of smaller vessels met in conflict. |
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Smaller species such as pilot whales, Baird's beaked whales and dolphins, are not subject to IWC restrictions. |
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Baird's beaked whales have an elongated, slender, spindle-shaped body with a small head and long flat back. |
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Dolphins and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales. |
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Extreme hearing damage could be what happened to 16 rare Cuvier's beaked whales in the Bahamas last March. |
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Slightly smaller than the American hazelnut, the beaked hazelnut grows up to 3.6 m tall. |
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Also, looking back over a decade of stranding records from Britain, the researchers found seven dolphins and porpoises and one beaked whale with puzzling gas bubbles. |
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The lithesome Godé-Darel, whose most distinctive feature was her large, beaked nose, is the star here. |
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There are about 20 species of beaked whales, making up about a quarter of all known whale species. |
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Recently, the deaths of two beaked whales in the Gulf of California were linked to a geophysical survey by the National Science Foundation. |
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There is increasing evidence that beaked whales are particularly affected by man-made sounds, such as military sonar. |
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One of the latest research projects is into beaked whales in the North Atlantic. |
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There were two species of beaked whales, probably two species of rorquals and one species of dolphin. |
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The species is known from limited strandings and seems to resemble closely Cuvier's beaked whale. |
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Military sonar is another threat that particularly affects deep-diving beaked whales and other cetaceans like the melon-headed whale. |
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Mayor researched paleontological finds in the Gobi and discovered that some of the most abundant fossils there belong to Protocerotops, a beaked dinosaur. |
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It would stand at least four meters tall, if it had enough room to stand comfortably in, its leathery gray skin was covered in patches of chitin, and its mouth was beaked. |
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Although he and his colleagues named a new beaked whale only last year, Mead says that scientists generally describe a whale species perhaps once a decade. |
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And then one day the sea gives up her mysteries and one can watch with delight the beaked whale or five different species of dolphin which swim here. |
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The bones of the forelimb of the alligator and the fin of a beaked whale are those of the arm and hand of a human, different in lengths of course, but all the bones are there. |
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Indopacetus has suddenly become one of the better-known beaked whales, and future writers of cetacean field guides will have to christen another species as least known. |
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A bird becomes pale shells and arcs and slivers, a weightless palmful of light, a blown bubble of beaked skull and thin airy curves for constructing chest and back and wings. |
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Fossil beaked whales have been recovered by trawling from the seafloor off South Africa. |
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Three years prior to Balcomb's discovery, research in the Bahamas showed 14 beaked whales washed up on the shore. |
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These features are also common with other larger beaked whales, especially the Baird's beaked whales. |
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From the mid-18th century the beaked mouthpiece formerly used was replaced by a narrow tube of bone or ivory that led to a chamber maintaining steady air pressure and holding a sponge to absorb breath moisture. |
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Despite being deep diving beaked whales, they are known to come, play, and rest in shallow waters in small numbers. |
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Before the beachings, he notes, his team had spotted about 50 of the unusual Cuvier's beaked whales in the study area. |
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A team of international researchers has documented evidence for the first time that sonar altered the behavior and movement of beaked whales. |
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The Sowerby's beaked whale had been marooned on the shores of Hirta island in St Kilda for a week. |
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Shy species, such as the Cuvier's beaked whale that can dive 3,000 feet below the surface, have taken years to find and monitor. |
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In general, species contributing the greatest number of twigs in adjacent woods were balsam fir, beaked hazelnut, and striped maple. |
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We are talking about a species of small whales, similar to dolphins, beaked whales, which are in a very desperate situation and the question we are currently asking is what is this military technology for? |
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On September 24 and 25, nine beaked whales died as they stranded themselves on the beaches of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote islands in the Canary Islands, Spain. |
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A beaked herbivorous archosaur with dinosaur affinities from the early Late Triassic of Poland. |
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Some species of beaked whales are known only from skeletal remains found on beaches. |
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We've seen stranded sperm whales, pilot whales, beaked whales, and bottlenose whales. |
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The waters around the islands are home to pods of huge sperm whales, northern bottlenose whales, pilot whales, Orcas and Sowerby's beaked whales. |
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According to the sources, Japan's first such study will involve 80 small whales in five species such as Baird's beaked whales, bottle-nosed dolphins and Dall's porpoises. |
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Most importantly, it is one of the few places where the beaked whales, such as the Cuvier's beaked whale, have been observed relatively frequently. |
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Since then 14 whale sharks, 4 mobulids rays, 2 sunfishes, 1 Longman's beaked whale, 2 bottlenose dolphin and thousands of marine turtles had been released. |
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