A different species of beaked whale, the Baird's beaked whale.
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True's beaked whales are one of 22 species of beaked whales within the Ziphiidae family.
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By tracking the birds' pedigrees, they found that large-beaked parents gave birth to large-beaked offspring, setting the stage for large-scale evolutionary change.
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The purpose of the molecular analysis was to confirm the identity of the specimens as True's beaked whales; even beaked whale experts have a hard time distinguishing one species from another.
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As testament to their elusive nature, three new species of beaked whales have been discovered in the past two decades alone, bringing the total number of known beaked whale species to 22.
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Previously, True's beaked whales had only been spotted three times.
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Puggles are baby short-beaked echidnas, a species of spiny anteater.
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We discovered it was largely the small-beaked birds that had died.
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The beaked whale being flanked by killer whales closely on each side.
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A bug-eyed, banged and beaked entity was haunting my mind's eye.
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The Cuvier's beaked whale is the undisputed champion of the long, deep dive.
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Several other new beaked whale species have been described since 1990, Allen said.
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Another video showed four Gervais' beaked whales, relatives of the True's whales, jumping.
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But understanding more about beaked whales is important for protecting the extreme divers.
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Cuvier's beaked whales are among the most mysterious and adept mammals on Earth.
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But what about those beaked herbivores that looked like dachshunds and waddled across Pangea?
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But in the process, he stumbled upon this potentially new species of beaked toad.
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Cuvier's beaked whales have more myoglobin than most diving mammals and far more than humans.
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In it Ms. Hamilton, her face concealed by a beaked mask, rides a brown horse.
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Science students captured two True's beaked whales on camera during an expedition in Portugal's Azores Islands.
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True's beaked whales have been known to breach the surface of the ocean, allowing for observations.
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Birds with the long-beaked genes were also more likely to visit feeders than those without.
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Look at this bird beaked, furry, mammalian, hind leg poison carrying, beaver tail having experiment pic.twitter.
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Beaked groups like birds and turtles have caruncles, but snakes and nearly all lizards do not.
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In March, a Cuvier's beaked whale was found vomiting blood off the coast of the Philippines.
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On Tuesday, a team of scientists announced the discovery of a brand new species of beaked whale.
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During observations, this lone beaked whale was spotted near a group of orcas, and a chase ensued.
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But these mysterious beaked whales make up the second largest family of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).
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What they did: The scientists used tags attached to 16 Cuvier's beaked whales to monitor their behavior.
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"Sperm whales, beaked whales — some of those species can dive for an hour or more," he said.
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The beaked whales hung out near the boat for 10 minutes, breathing every 10 seconds or so.
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The fossilized remains of Eoconfuciusornis, a beaked bird with no teeth, still contains traces of its original color.
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There was a badge on the breast pocket of his blazer, a long-beaked bird feeding its young.
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Trilobites True's beaked whales look a bit like weird dolphins with big foreheads, fat bellies and small flippers.
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Few people ever see beaked whales because they spend more than 90 percent of their time diving underwater.
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Scientists still have no idea about the numbers of True's beaked whales or other species in their family.
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Trilobites Cuvier's beaked whales off Cape Hatteras dive farther and stay underwater longer than any other marine mammal.
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That's why researchers in Scotland decided to publish one of the most comprehensive surveys yet on True's beaked whales.
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On March 15, a juvenile male curvier beaked whale was found washed ashore in the Philippines with 88 lbs.
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Of the 22 species of these portly and pointy-nosed creatures, the True's beaked whale is among the rarest.
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To learn more, they are starting a global genetic analysis of bones and tissues of beaked whales to find out if the True's beaked whales of the Southern Hemisphere are a different species from those of the north, because they're the only whales found in both, with a gap in the middle.
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Scientists have recorded Cuvier's beaked whales changing their behavior in response to sonar use at a Naval base in California.
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With turkey-scale dimensions, expressive beaked faces, and bristly tails, these animals were about as squee-inducing as dinosaurs could get.
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In March, in the Philippines, a 15-foot beaked whale arrived dead with nearly 90 pounds of plastic in his stomach.
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In a separate study, Cuvier's beaked whales increased their speed and stroke rate for nearly two hours after exposure to sonar.
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To really know if it was a True's beaked whale, she asked other researchers if they had seen anything like it.
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By conducting a genetic analysis of the stranded animals and comparing their DNA sequences to that of known True's beaked whales, her team found that the masked whale of El Hierro had a genetic signature most closely related to that of True's beaked whales that had been stranded off the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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The development from toothy juveniles to toothless and beaked adults probably let dinos young and old live together without competing for food.
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Mr. Moore had no luck finding the Mesopotamia beaked toad (Rhinella rostrata), last seen in 1914 in the Choco forests of Colombia.
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Scientists have confirmed that small, black-beaked whales spotted by Japanese whalers are an entirely new species, according to a new study.
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Beaked whales exist in temperate waters from the North Atlantic to Brazil, and also near South Africa, Mozambique, Australia and New Zealand.
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This included three sperm whales — two of which were a mother and her very young calf — three beaked whales and two baleen whales.
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The long-beaked birds flew in Saturday as the class of 2018 was receiving diplomas outdoors on a lawn overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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Our interest was beaked — er, piqued — this week when Country Living highlighted a rather unique Etsy find: a crocheted Christmas sweater for chickens.
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At the time they knew they had seen a beaked whale, but had no idea they had seen one of the rarest kinds.
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This past March, a dead Cuvier's beaked whale was discovered by a marine biologist in the Philippines with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach.
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Yet "the Bird Superior," beaked as Ernst himself, titters at the margins of the prints and dashes through the pages of the artist's image-novels.
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As is typical of orcas, they chased their prey to exhaustion, eventually killing the beaked whales through successive bites and forcing them underwater to drown.
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Topping the list is a platypus-like critter called the Attenborough's Long-beaked Echidna, which is one of only two mammals known to lay eggs.
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Since its arrest, the bird has reportedly been tight-beaked, refusing to speak to authorities despite an effort to make it narc on its owners.
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There are three species of dolphins in the Black Sea off Bulgaria: the short-beaked common dolphin, the harbor porpoise and the common bottlenose dolphin.
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What they learn from it and other reported sightings could help in devising conservation strategies to protect these attention-shy animals and related beaked whales.
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The encounter with these three whales was among five confirmed live sightings of True's beaked whales in this region of three Atlantic archipelagos called Macaronesia.
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From rhino-like animals with massive heads and stubby spines, to beaked mishmashes of every dinosaur in the book, there's been a cavalcade of incredible additions.
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Seriously though, if short beaked echidnas ever go extinct, shame on the entire human race, because these creatures deserve nothing but our love, affection and protection.
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On four of these outings, the researchers watched in horror and amazement as groups of up to 20 orca whales attacked and killed lone beaked whales.
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He could already imagine it, sing-alongs on an orange sand beach as giant long-beaked insects feasted on little pink jellyfish that washed up onshore.
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Beaked whales are an elusive group of mammals that can dive to thousands of feet below the ocean's surface and stay submerged for over an hour.
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A whale-watching group also provided her with photos for identification of True's beaked whales, a mother and her calf, traveling in the Azores in 2015.
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Strange sirens have appeared for decades in the murky waters of Florida and Alabama—slippery, beaked, and dappled, with two front legs and ornate plumes of gills.
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True's beaked whales dive to depth for long periods of time, and they only pop up to the surface once in a while for short breathing intervals.
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It's so rare to see a beaked whale at sea that many researchers devoting their lives to the study of whales and porpoises have never seen one.
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"They are walking the rope of their physiological limitations, and this makes beaked whales more vulnerable to human impact than other whales," Dr. Aguilar de Soto said.
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A small local fleet has survived by hunting cetaceans not covered by the IWC, such as dolphins and Baird's beaked whale, and by conducting "research" of its own.
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The findings, published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, detail the lengthy process of finding and identifying samples from 178 beaked whales in and around the Pacific Rim.
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McFarlane's instinct as a storyteller is to let some puzzles remain unsolved, to honor the "bony-beaked messenger bringing no news," as she writes of the colossal squid.
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In 2014, an adult female dolphin was photographed with her presumed first offspring; just two months later, an unusual, one-month-old "short‐beaked" calf joined her ranks.
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Matter The 153-million-year-old fossil is both fearsome and comical: a long-beaked penguin that stood 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed about 220 pounds.
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Dark wood walls, pulpits, doors, pews and balconies were carved with apples, long-stemmed flowers, seeds, and prominently beaked birds; and embedded with zigzagging, pulsing, and spinning lines.
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Long-beaked parrotfish, big-eyed squirrelfish, translucent blue disc-shaped surgeonfish, and huge angelfish in a dozen patterns nibbled on brightly colored coral and darted through sea anemones.
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In 2017 scientists at the University of Bergen retrieved 30 plastic bags from the stomach of a dead goose-beaked whale that was found on Norway's west coast.
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Most of what scientists know about the species is gleaned from their carcasses or pooled from behaviors observed among the 22 known species in the beaked whale family.
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Embodying this beaked merchant of mayhem can feel like a satisfying role reversal for any human who has ever encountered an angry goose honking at them in a park.
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In some cases, naval exercises using sonar to detect submarines have led to mass strandings of Cuvier's beaked whales, whose fragile physiology is disturbed when they try to escape.
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He has the accomplishments of a chest-beating conservative hero—he is a self-made millionaire, triathlete and razor-beaked deficit hawk; he vetoed 750 spending bills in New Mexico.
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She points to a case in 2002, when a handful of beaked whales thought to be trying to escape sonar from naval exercises wound up stranded in the Canary Islands.
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Every hour and a half, Cuvier's beaked whale, also called the goosebeak whale, dives down up to 10,203 feet and stays there, at tremendous pressure, for up to two hours.
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They lose as often as they win and play their home games in an arena called the Smoothie King Center, where a big-beaked mascot named Pierre roams the crowd.
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The report said that the dinosaur died trapped in mud with its beaked head titled upwards and wings extended, where it remained frozen in time until it was exposed by dynamite.
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Previously, there were only two known species belonging to the genus Berardius—Baird's and Arnoux's beaked whales—but these new findings indicate there's another species hanging out in the North Pacific.
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"On the whole, however, beaked whales are fairly mysterious—according to NOAA, they're "among the least known whales in the ocean, with several species identified only in the past few decades.
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Orcas are among the most savage killers in the ocean, wrecking tiger sharks, seals, beaked whales—and probably one of the most infamous apex predators out there, the great white shark.
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In their study, the researchers made seven live sightings of True's beaked whales around the Azores and Canary Islands off the coast of Portugal and North Africa in the North Atlantic.
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"a six-and-a-half-foot renegade knight of The Force (David Prowse) who wears a black (what else?) uniform and cape and a predatory beaked black metal face mask" (Newsday).
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They found that beaked animals tended to be born from eggs laid on land and from embryos that had a structure on the tip of their snouts known as a caruncle.
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Earlier in the month, a juvenile male Cuvier's beaked whale was found dead in the Philippines due to "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists found.
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Click here to view original GIFSightings of True's beaked whales are so rare that even the most devoted whale expert can go an entire career without ever seeing one in the wild.
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One dad who brought his twins to the soft opening of the sensory room during a general admission team practice on August 4, said the beaked mascot made his kids feel comfortable.
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Once thought to be restricted to more temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the beaked whales' range also includes waters in the southern Indian and South Atlantic Oceans as well as the Tasman Sea.
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Don Harris, the man responsible for the O.G. duck in Game 3, told The Tennessean that it really wasn't much of an issue getting the beaked-bird into the arena and onto the ice.
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"These big giant noises that the Navy sonar ships make may cause [deep-diving beaked whales] to freak out and they bolt straight toward the surface, which they normally would never do," said Fire.
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The haul of plastic, which also included sweet wrappers and plastic bread bags, had blocked the Cuvier's beaked whale's digestive system, according to experts from the University of Bergen who found no traces of food.
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One fascinating subculture is dedicated to the Furby, the iconic, beaked, animatronic fluff ball that's been charming and horrifying children with its eerie knack for human speech since Tiger Electronics first produced it in 1998.
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The ride up a cobble-strewed path was a series of pinch-me moments — glorious vistas of the northern Andes, rays of morning sun shooting through fluffy clouds, the occasional ridiculous-beaked toucan flying by.
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Other studies show that beaked whales are extremely sensitive to noise, and in frantic efforts to escape seismic air guns or navy sonar they have been forced to change their dive patterns to the surface.
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The Navy has created some areas for beaked whales to shelter during sonar tests, but the study found that there were 10-times more squid in the Navy's test area than in those shelter areas.
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He said the transition they saw in the jaws of the Limusaurus — where hatchlings and juveniles lose their teeth as they became adults — may have been how the change from toothy dinosaur to beaked bird began.
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Hokkaido whalers had long referred to two types of whales as tsuchi-kujira, a name that encompassed the Baird's beaked whale, called Berardius bairdii, and a smaller black whale, called kuro-tsuchi (or karasu, meaning crow).
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Get caught red beaked, and you'll be ushered out of the way and every NPC nearby will do their best to set things back to the status quo, giving you another opportunity to go at it.
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Although diving capacity usually increases with size, Cuvier's beaked whales dive longer and deeper than larger whales, and are about half the size of sperm whales, which are the second best deep-divers, Ms. Shearer said.
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The young male Cuvier's beaked whale was discovered on Saturday with "16 rice sacks, 4 banana plantation style bags and multiple shopping bags," Darrell Blatchley, owner of the D'Bone Collector Museum in the Philippines, wrote on Facebook.
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The study, published today in Biology Letters, shows that Chilesaurus is not a theropod, as originally thought, but rather a very early member of ornithischia, a group that includes beaked plant-munching dinosaurs like Stegosaurus, Triceratops and Iguanodon.
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Dive-bombing from heights up to 300 feet and at speeds as fast as 60 mph, these sharp-beaked birds don't bother with etiquette—as Tracey Lund captures in this amazing image, taken near the Shetland Islands last summer.
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Animals annually are crammed into metal cages without the ability to move throughout their lives; housed in dark windowless sheds; denied veterinary care; and de-beaked, tail-docked, and castrated without anesthesia, all because it is cheaper than more humane alternatives.
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With his spanking karategi and cowboy kiai , his weasel-sleek of hair and handlebars, he was a spectacle there in Midland, Texas, circa 1973, where the sun slammed the blacktop and the pump jacks beaked the background like prehistoric crows.
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"This is an unusual but sadly not unprecedented case — sperm whales and other deep-diving beaked whales have been found stranded around the coasts of Europe for years with marine litter of some description in their stomachs," Dr. Brownlow said.
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After she turns the corner, a gaggle of tiny, hairy, dodo-beaked aliens—one of 8,000 species that Besson and his crew designed for their production bible, and one of at least 200 you'll see in Valerian—comes out to confront her.
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The new footage, captured by a research team from the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland, shows two adult True beaked whales swimming with a calf near the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Phillie Phanatic, one of the most recognizable mascots in American sports, is the subject of a lawsuit by the Philadelphia Phillies, trying to stop the mascot's creators from taking away the baseball team's bright green, fat, furry, long-beaked creature.
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The most recent whale, the Cuvier's beaked whale with the 88 pounds of plastic, had ingested grocery bags, plastic garbage bags, 20 rice and banana sacks, and a lot else that doesn't belong in the sea or in a warm and breathing living being.
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Other animals on Kangaroo Island are facing questions about their survival: the dunnart, a small, possum-like marsupial; the Rosenberg's goanna, a lizard for which the island was considered a final stronghold before extinction; and the short-beaked echidna, which was classified as endangered in 2017.
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A new study, published Wednesday in Royal Society Open Science, is the first to look at a population of these whales that lives off Cape Hatteras, N.C. Researchers tagged 11 Cuvier's beaked whales for an average of a month, tracking the length and depths of their dives.
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Findings from the team's report, published on the website bioRxiv: The team: Timothy Gentner and his students at UCSD, with the help of Argentinian birdsong expert Ezequiel Arneodo, say they've successfully decoded "realistic synthetic birdsong directly from neural activity" of the zebra finch; a small, orange-beaked bird.
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Credit... LOS ANGELES — One afternoon last month, the shiny red curtains parted at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater to reveal the dancing Three Caballeros — puppets in the shape of a big-beaked toucan, a parrot and a rooster — manipulated from above by puppeteers dressed head to toe in red.
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They popped up in some unexpected places—one was a skeleton chilling at a high school in Alaska, and another washed up on the shore of St. George Island in the Bering Sea—but when scientists compared the results, they discovered that the eight samples weren't Baird's or Arnoux's beaked whales.
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Those memories materialize in the playground bullying of "Origin," a window into his past as a "shy, withdrawn kid" through the eyes of his art student in "Time Machine," or, from way out in left field, when the artist takes the shape of a long-beaked bird in several stories.
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This would include 94 instances for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale; over 11,85003 times for large whales like the Humback, Minke, Fin and Sperm; nearly 50,000 times for the small whale species including beaked whales and pilot whales; and over 380,000 times for all the dolphin species in the range.
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Although she has yet to prove it and admits that the contributions to mass strandings are still poorly understood, Dr. Williams speculates that oceanic noise may contribute to the strandings of some beaked whales through some combination of changes in swimming style, increased energy demands and lack of oxygen to their brains.
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Other birds flutter through Beyond Painting, echoing and expanding on the artist's passionate pursuit of the unfamiliar, from the frantic feathered heads that top the bodies of male dandies in the later collage novel A Week of Kindness or the Seven Deadly Elements (1933) to the beaked bronze totem of "Bird-Head" (1934–35).
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