The phrase "tiny crustaceans" refers to very small animals that have a hard outer shell and belong to a group called crustaceans.
Sentences with «tiny crustaceans»
Hungry humpbacks travel thousands of kilometers to feast on a rich buffet of tiny crustaceans called krill, researchers reported here this week at the biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. (sciencemag.org)
When a fish corpse reaches the bottom, every bit of flesh and bone is slowly scavenged by eel - like hagfish, starfish, and swarms of tiny crustaceans called amphipods. (discovermagazine.com)
Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus, an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi (sciencemag.org)