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  • Readers will be able to sense just how much fun Broadmore had rendering creations such as "Felch's Spring-Necked Oik," "The Shallow-Beaked Grogan," and "Unwin's Double-Backed Shrovel."

    Guilty Pleasures 2010

  • Beaked whales, which Rolland is now studying, are particularly sensitive to sonar she said, and are frequently the species involved in mass beachings.

    Shipping causes 'chronic stress' to whales 2012

  • Beaked whales and sperm whales often remain below the surface for more than an hour.

    Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life 2009

  • The Arnoux's Beaked Whales is one of the least known species of the Beaked Whales family (Ziphidae), itself poorly known in general.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • On the 17th of December, Meike Scheidat & Linn Lehnert, the whale watchers on board of Polarstern, made a remarkable cetaceans sighting: Four Arnoux's Beaked Whales (Berardius arnuxii), observed from the helicopter.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Navy testing of sonar has been linked to multiple mass strandings of cetaceans, most suspiciously to strandings of deep water whales which typically live far from shore: for example, Culvier's Beaked Whale also known as the Goose-beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris, typically lives far offshore, and is almost certainly one of the blinder whales, completely dependent upon echolocation; mass strandings of this species in the Mediterranean and the Bahamas have been linked to military exercises.

    Data and dolphins mariness 2006

  • Beaked jugs (III, Fig. 5) most characteristic shape of this period.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • Beaked triremes have rubbed their girding cables against the wharves of the old

    The Pools of Silence 1907

  • The earlier groups of Beaked Dinosaurs are found in both Europe and

    Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

  • The Beaked Dinosaurs are more limited in their distribution, for none of them so far as at present known reached Australia or South America.

    Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

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