Pierre Joseph Pelletier
Pierre Joseph Pelletier , 1788-1842, French chemist. With J. B. Caventou , he was cofounder of alkaloid chemistry and codiscoverer of quinine, strychnine, brucine, and other alkaloids. He also isolated such other substances as picrotoxin, caffeine, and piperine. He was especially noted for his introduction of new methods of generating organic substances.
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My pet fish turned into a hammerhead shark
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 6/28/1999; ; 675 words
; ...grew - into a hammerhead shark nearly 18 inches long. Now...is now hoping to sell the shark for GBP 30 - but warns prospective...He had not seen John's shark but said it sounded like...about five or six species of hammerhead sharks in the world - it's a name...pet shops call such ...
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Virgin birth suggests a bleak future for hammerhead sharks
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/23/2007; ; 465 words
; ...birth has been recorded among hammerhead sharks for the first time, in a...wild populations. A female shark that was caught off Florida...though there were no male hammerheads in the aquarium. Similar...have been put down to the sharks' ability to store sperm...that showed that the newborn ...
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First Observations of Feeding on Thresher (Alopias vulpinus) and Hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) Sharks by Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Specialising on Elasmobranch Prey
Magazine article from: Aquatic Mammals; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...elasmobranch, thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, smooth-hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena, predation...predation on elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) was reviewed by...reported-for example, white shark (Carcharodon carcharias...
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Shark: The deep Coming eyeball to eyeball with a great white, or swimming with hungry hammerheads is all in a day's work for the chainmail- wearing photographer Jeffrey L Rotman. Here, he explains his 25-year-long mission to capture the perfect shark picture
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...species. Scalloped hammerhead, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii There is no mistaking a hammerhead shark, with its head that...than those of other sharks. The flattened head...discovered that juvenile hammerheads in Kaneohe take refuge...perhaps to avoid larger sharks). Moses smoothhound ...
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Qld: Dutch tourist attacked by hammerhead shark
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/29/2002; 297 words
; ...Qld: Dutch tourist attacked by hammerhead shark By Alex Murdoch BRISBANE, Dec...old Dutch tourist attacked by a hammerhead shark in far north Queensland...shark matched that of a large hammerhead. The incident follows the death...
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Scientists: Hammerhead has 'virgin birth' in zoo's shark tank.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 5/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...Fleshler May 23--A hammerhead shark captured in Florida...in a tank of female sharks. The research was to...birds, but never a shark, the scientists say...someone dropped the baby shark in the tank as a hoax...at least some female sharks can switch from a sexual...
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NSW: Hammerhead shark near lifeguard at Sydney beach
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/7/2009; 216 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 01-07-2009 NSW: Hammerhead shark near lifeguard at Sydney beach A lifeguard was unaware a hammerhead shark was swimming near him at a popular Sydney beach. Water police moved in about...
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Nearshore nursery use in the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini. (Abstracts of Papers).(Abstract)
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 4/1/2003; 700+ words
; Duncan, Kanesa Scalloped hammerhead shark pups (Sphyrna lewini) inhabit...Kaneohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawaii. Shark pups were present in the bay...the point of release, some sharks dispersed up to 5 km across...areas may remain important hammerhead habitat throughout the first...
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The social lives of hammerheads.
Magazine article from: World and I; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and the smooth hammerhead (S. zygaena). In the hammerhead shark, the front part...cephalofoil of the hammerheads unfolds into a series...predation of these sharks. It has been observed that hammerhead sharks posses a...
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Sharks: Dinnertime In the middle of the Pacific, white-tips and hammerheads are gathering in their thousands, hungry for food, and ignoring, for now, the prying lens of photographer Jeff Rotman. Words by Bill Tuckey
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...among them. "This is the shark equivalent of Piccadilly Circus...treasures are "the scalloped hammerheads that migrate here by the thousands...by the hundreds; the silky sharks - we found ourselves in situations...and the white-tipped reef sharks - so many you practically...these beasts. And some ...
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hammerhead shark
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hammerhead shark active, surface-living shark, genus Sphyrina...evidence that hammerheads are better swimmers than other sharks. Found in inshore...brackish water, hammerheads are both predators...rays, and other hammerheads, and large hammerheads...distributed great ...
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hammerhead
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
ham·mer·head / ˈhamərˌhed / • n. 1. (also hammerhead shark ) a shark (genus Sphyrna , family Sphyrnidae) of tropical and temperate oceans that has flattened bladelike extensions...
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bonnet shark
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bonnet shark see hammerhead shark .
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Sharks
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...in (195 cm) for frilled sharks to 16.5 ft (5 m) for a species of six-gill shark. The Heterodontiformes order...eight species of bullhead sharks. They have a wide head...1-6 m), with basking sharks reaching over 33 ft (10 m...includes the cat-sharks, hammerhead sharks, and ...
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sharks
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...frequently shed and replaced; a shark typically replaces many thousands...most curiously shaped is the hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), which...herring , squid , and other sharks. The giant hammerhead can...in length. The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias...
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