Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche ( both marine and terrestrial ), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals.

The population of polar bears are locally recovering from the major culls of the 1960s and 1970s that came about due to the availability of snow scooters ; however, the Polar bear remains threatened at a global level, due to unsustainable levels of killing by humans and due to marine water pollution.

It started in 1920 when a man named Rossum came to the island to study marine biology and accidentally discovered a chemical that behaved exactly like protoplasm, except that it did not mind being knocked around.

Over time, Triton's class and image came to be associated with a class of mermaid-like creatures, the Tritons ( Τρίτωνες ), which could be male or female, and usually formed the escort of marine divinities.

< p > Strabo ... enters largely, in the Second Book of his Geography, into the opinions of Eratosthenes and other Greeks on one of the most difficult problems in geology, viz., by what causes marine shells came to be plentifully buried in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea .</ p >

The regular Ottoman fleet came to dominate the Eastern Mediterranean after its victory at Preveza in 1538 and the loss of Djerba in 1560 ( shortly after Charles ' death ) which severely decimated the Spanish marine arm.

More than 80 percent of the meat in the Lucayan diet came from marine fishes, almost all of which grazed on seagrass and / or coral.

The balance of dietary meat came from marine mollusks.

A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of sea-pieces, Willem van de Velde, the younger, was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great celebrity by his art before he came to London.

When this color, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue.

The need for a common name came to be felt because of the common marine biology, geology and hydrology.

The organisation came about because the nations were ( and continue to be ) unhappy with the international management of cetaceans and other marine mammals by the International Whaling Commission.

In 1810 Spix came back to Munich where he sorted the zoological collection and published a first publication on starfish and other marine animals.

The Total SA company was also fined $ 550, 000 for the amount of marine pollution that came from it.

The last revision of this vehicle still had a high spec and came with climate control, roof bars, alloy wheels and marine ply boarding with full-length rubber mat in the loadspace as standard.

Rogers came from an affluent seafaring family, grew up in Poole and Bristol, and served a marine apprenticeship to a Bristol sea captain.

French forces included the battalions of La Sarre, Guyenne, and Béarn, troupes de la marine, and colonial militia, while Indians, numbering about 250, came from all over the territories of New France.

This came from both concern about wild populations and also the capture of larger animals such as the Orca, and gaining popularity of dolphin shows in marine parks.

The insight that flysch is actually a deep marine sediment typical for a particular plate tectonic setting came only much later.

Marwan al-Shehhi came to Bonn, Germany in 1996, on scholarship from the United Arab Emirates Army to study marine engineering.

The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life.

estimated global bycatch through observation of U. S. fisheries and came to the conclusion that an annual estimate of 653, 365 marine mammals, comprising 307, 753 cetaceans and 345, 611 pinnipeds were caught from 1990 – 1994.

Chain saw sales accounted for 4 percent of the final figure, while a full 70 percent came from marine products.

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly ( 1817-14 December 1894 ), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester.

Some of mud from the dredging was deposited at the western edge of Middle Harbor Shoreline Park to become a shallow-water wetlands habitat for marine and shore life.

Many waders ( or shorebirds ) and herons are also highly marine, living on the sea's edge ( coast ), but are also not treated as seabirds

Many marine gastropods are burrowers, and have a siphon that extends out from the mantle edge.

Owing to their location along the Pacific shelf edge and the confluence of Okhotsk Sea gyre and the southward Oyashio Current, the Kuril islands are surrounded by waters that are among the most productive in the North Pacific, supporting a wide range and high abundance of marine life.

A marine terrace commonly retains a shoreline angle or inner edge, the slope inflection between the marine abrasion platform and the associated paleo sea-cliff.

* Stanchions-A series of narrow but strong posts, often made of marine grade stainless steel, designed to hold life lines around the outer edge of a deck.

The island's abundance of seabirds and marine mammals is due largely to the influence of the Anadyr Current, an ocean current which brings cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep waters of the Bering Sea shelf edge.

In oceanography and marine biology, the idea of the littoral zone is extended roughly to the edge of the continental shelf.

Some marine snails such as the abalone and the top snails, Trochidae, have numerous small tentacles around the edge of the mantle.

Aircraft navigation lights are placed in a way similar to that of marine vessels, with a red navigation light located on the left wingtip leading edge and a green light on the right wingtip leading edge.

The house, formerly a Blue Crab Seafood restaurant and a marine supply company, sits on the edge of the southeast end of Driscoll's Wharf, overlooking America's Cup Harbor in Point Loma.

Some of mud from the dredging was deposited at the western edge of Middle Harbor Shoreline Park to become a shallow-water wetlands habitat for marine and shore life.

In the case of some other marine gastropod shells, such as the volute and the Nassarius pictured above, the shell has a simple " siphonal notch " at the anterior edge of the aperture instead of a long siphonal canal.

The village lies on the edge of one of the great marine creek levees formed during the Bronze Age, or from the modern salt marsh.

It is low domed, the edge is upturned and has four pairs of costal scales — fewer than other marine turtles.

After 10 days of constant fighting the marine and army units in the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir had succeeded in gathering at the edge of the plateau and Lt. Col.

* Mannans: They form microfibrils in the cell walls of a number of marine green algae including those from the genera, Codium, Dasycladus, and Acetabularia as well as in the walls of some red algae, like Porphyra and Bangia.

Its activities cover a wide range of issues regarding the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, environmental governance and green economy.

In the 1990s, it was thought that this was a deadly condition for sea turtles and would quickly lead to the extinction of the green turtle, and possibly all species of marine turtles.

The endangered green turtles are a special group of marine organisms with distinctive navigation behaviour between their nesting, breeding, development and reproduction sites.

Most marine light-emission belongs in the blue and green light spectrum, the wavelengths that can transmit through the seawater most easily.

While most marine bioluminescence is green to blue, the Black Dragonfish produces a red glow.

In marine navigation, starboard bearings are ' green ' and port bearings are ' red '.

It commonly preys upon fish, crustaceans, mollusks, jellyfishes, dugongs, seabirds, seasnakes, marine mammals ( e. g. bottlenose dolphins, spotted dolphins ), and sea turtles ( e. g. green and loggerhead turtles ).

* Informal grouping Iguanines: marine, Fijian, Galapagos land, spinytail, rock, desert, green, and chuckwalla iguanas

* Subfamily Iguaninae: marine, Fijian, Galapagos land, spinytail, rock, desert, green, and chuckwalla iguanas

* Iguaninae: marine, Fijian, Galapagos land, spinytail, rock, desert, green, and chuckwalla iguanas

They are an important predator of sea urchins and green crabs, whose populations escalate rapidly and can negatively affect the health of a marine system.

* Rose Atoll also known as Motu o Manu, conservation habitat for native birdlife, marine life, green turtle and endangered hawksbill turtle.

The legionnaires of the French Foreign Legion wear white kepis, blue sashes and green and red epaulettes as dress uniform, while the Troupes de marine wear blue and red kepis and yellow epaulettes.

Prasiola is a genus of fresh water and marine green algae.

In both marine and freshwater environments the algae – particularly green algae and diatoms – make up the dominant component of aufwuchs communities.

He's a space marine in really cool green armor.

The diverse marine science and conservation ventures include: breeding and conservation programs for endangered marine animals and habitats ; housing of unreleasable seals, sea lions, and sea otters from local care centers and marine parks ; beach and habitat cleanups ; a variety of green business practices ; and continuing efforts to educate visitors on the importance the ocean, its threats, and conservation, including the hazards of marine pollution, over-harvesting, habitat destruction and global climate change.

Less common colors include yellow ( canary ), ultra marine, jadeite ( opaque pale green ), delphite ( opaque pale blue ), cobalt blue, red ( ruby & royal ruby ), black, amethyst, monax, and white ( milk glass ).

Batan, Aklan also has beautiful and virgin beaches, abundant marine life, great seafoods, coconut products, grain products, luscious fruits and large green forests.