Showing posts with label Bahamas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bahamas. Show all posts
Photo of the Day 466
Photograph by James L. Stanfield Islanders, on a seasonal visit to uninhabited Samana Cay in the eastern Bahamas, crab by torchwood light at a point probably seen by Christopher Columbus’s fleet on October 12, 1492. Columbus visited five islands in the Bahamas before reaching Cuba. (Photo shot on assignment for "Where Columbus Found the New World,” November 1986, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 150
Photograph by Brian Skerry The oceanic whitetip, one of the most abundant sharks just three decades ago, is critically endangered in parts of its range because of relentless demand for its fins. But bans in the Bahamas on the export of shark parts and commercial long-line fishing have made the islands' blue waters a veritable shark sanctuary. (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Blue Waters of the Bahamas: An Eden for Sharks," March 2007, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 90
Photograph by Brian Skerry Primordial in appearance, great hammerheads, like this one near the Bahamas, are actually among evolution's most advanced sharks. Wide-set eyes and nostrils provide keen peripheral senses, and tiny electroreceptors on its snout help it pinpoint prey. Dozens of serrated teeth do the rest. (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Blue Waters of the Bahamas: An Eden for Sharks," March 2007, National Geographic magazine)
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