Sentences with phrase «armed sea stars»

Many - armed sea stars of pink, orange or red navigate among the corals, feasting on the outer skin and the tentacled feeding cells of coral colonies.

«If someone were to come to this area, they wouldn't know these six - armed sea stars existed here, even though this has been a main part of their species range,» Jurgens said.

But it might be decades before the more home - bodied six - armed sea stars return to the area, since their babies can only crawl small distances away from their mothers.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

The scientists documented almost 100 percent mortality of purple sea urchins and six - armed sea stars over the study area, which stretched from southern Mendocino County to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County.

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairs.

Some of the animals that depend on the sandy beaches to survive are the ghost crab, turtle, hermit crab, sand dollars, nine - armed sea star, segmented worms and much more.

Not exact matches

The depths of the frigid continent hold hydrothermal vents which house a variety of pale creatures — including predatory sea stars with seven arms...

The lizard with severed tail able to grow a new one, a sea star with severed arm able to regenerate what was lost, a forest taken out by fire able to start anew, a body that has lost blood able to restore its supply.

What Christian would willingly surrender the appearance of the angels to the shepherds and the «multitude of the heavenly host» singing a hymn never heard before on land or sea, or the star dropping low from the skies to guide the magi from far away mysterious lands to the Judean village and the stable who God himself lay a tiny baby in the arms of his mother?

The coat of arms depicts two animals: the tawny eagle (Aquila rapax, a very large bird that lives in the savannas and deserts [citation needed]; 35 % of Ghana's landmass is desert, 35 % is forest, 30 % is savanna) and the lion (Panthera leo, a big cat); a ceremonial sword, an heraldic castle on an heraldic sea, a cocoa tree and a mine shaft representing the industrial mineral wealth of Ghana, and a five - pointed black star rimmed with gold representing the mineral gold wealth of Ghana and the lodestar of the Ghanaian people.

The disease tends to progress from no outward signs to behavior changes in which the sea stars cross their arms and seem to collapse on themselves.

The sea stars first developed lesions, then began to lose their arms, and finally decayed into piles of skeletal ossicles (bits of calcium carbonate such as a star's plates and spines).

«We discovered it clutching on for dear life to one of the five arms of a common sea star,» said Pentcheff.

Like their fellow echinoderms, including urchins and sea cucumbers, basket stars have five-fold symmetry, but they elaborate on this with their extraordinary many - fingered arms, which are a little like slender coral branches.

Like their cousins the brittle stars, the sea cucumbers have a well developed defensive mechanism, but having no arms to break oft, the sea cucumbers instead eject internal organs onto the sea floor when threatened.

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