Sentences with phrase «as urchin»

Plus, battle Mode has been revamped and includes Balloon Battle and Bob - omb Blast, with all - new courses such as Urchin Underpass and Battle Stadium, and returning ones like (GCN) Luigi's Mansion and (SNES) Battle Course 1.

Plus, Battle mode has been revamped and includes Balloon Battle and Bob - omb Blast, with new courses such as Urchin Underpass and Battle Stadium, and returning ones like GCN Luigi's Mansion and SNES Battle Course 1.

Plus, Battle Mode has been revamped and includes Balloon Battle and Bob - omb Blast, with all - new courses such as Urchin Underpass and Battle Stadium, and returning ones like (GCN) Luigi's Mansion and (SNES) Battle Course 1.

[36][37] The recovery of kelp forests from barren states has been documented following dramatic perturbations, such as urchin disease or large shifts in thermal conditions.

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Memories of weekends spent sailing were as deeply buried as the sea urchins McManus used to harvest as a commercial diver.

The late Mark Heard wrote their anthem: «We are soot - covered urchins running wild and unshod / We will always be remembered as the orphans of God.»

That exploded eggplant reminds me of nothing so much as some kind of as - yet unidentified echinoderm (sea stars, urchins, sea cucumber, etc.), many of whom can evert their stomachs.

Ice cream baron Tyler Malek collaborates with local chefs to concoct head - turning flavor combinations such as «foie s» mores» (toasted foie gras marshmallows and smoked vanilla ice cream ribboned with veal chocolate sauce and hazelnut graham cracker crumble); black olive brittle and goat cheese; and sea urchin meringue with mint.

As for the urchin, Mr Hayward says the development of harvesting will have to be managed carefully so Tasmania's environmental credentials are not tarnished through association with invasive species.

And, Harney Sushi is so committed to the cause that some traditional, high - demand sushi items have been eradicated from the menu, such as Toro, Bluefin Tuna, Big Eye Tuna, certain types of Yellowfin, Unagi, Red Snapper, Hamachi, Maine Sea Urchin and Octopus.

Then it all starts to fall apart, as no more money is spent, with the club starting to sound like a poor urchin that just can not keep up with the big boys, injury problems start to mount and make the squad look even more in need of help and then an opening day defeat leaves everyone suddenly talking about crisis.

The urchins masquerading as journalists ITK are basically story tellers better suited to writing for comic books.

In this respect, he was following on from Zico, who was almost turned away by Flamengo as a scrawny street urchin standing at just 4» 9».

The visual systems of sea urchins, mantis shrimp and other creatures are broadening scientists» understanding of what qualifies as an eye, Susan Milius reported in «Strange visions» (SN: 5/28/16, p. 22).

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

The development of an elaborate crystalline skeleton within the transparent embryo of the sea urchin provides a model for the shaping of hard mineralized tissues such as shell and bone

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

But small reserves can still be extremely effective, especially for relatively sedentary species such as sea urchins and lobsters.

I went to Woods Hole so as to be able to work on sea urchin eggs, as by then we had a good understanding of our reticulocyte system.

This special issue, 169 Best Illusions, contains a smorgasbord of static images that appear to be moving (such as the Hatpin Urchin shown here), «impossible» sculptures, freaky faces, ghostly afterimages and even some edible illusions.

«Damselfish populations appear to have grown recently as their predators have been overfished, which is one plausible explanation as to why long - spined urchin populations have failed to recover.»

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

STRANGE VISIONS A lab image of a juvenile purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)-- without obvious eyes — shows an abundance of light - detecting proteins, such as c - opsins (red).

The research published in the journal Science Advances predicts that as the oceans warm fish — which appear to be superior predators in warm water — will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.

Yet at times urchins act as if they «see» large - enough somethings in their world, even if the how and what of their visual systems have been hard to pin down.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

Sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae, crustaceans, and numerous mollusks, such as mussels, find their home here.

Caselle and lead author Scott Hamilton, previously a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB and now a faculty member at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories near Monterey, show that as sheephead increase in size — particularly when they surpass the minimum size limit of the fishery — they are able to eat bigger urchins, and more of them, as revealed by analysis of their gut content.

Commonly found in the waters from Baja California to Point Conception — although they can sometimes be found as far north as Monterey Bay — sheephead feed on sea urchins, whose grazing habits can wreak havoc on community composition in kelp forests.

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.

Coral eroders, termed bioeroders, include species of sea urchins, sponges, parrotfish and microorganisms, known as microendoliths.

While some of the qualities, such as color and consistency, were a good match, they found that the pink urchin roe on average weighed 80 % less than the red urchin.

If a city otter could not find its first choice of prey, usually abalone, it could fall back on its second, such as crabs or urchins.

Sea urchin is a delicacy in Asia, South America, Europe, and increasingly in California, where the uniquely flavored roe, or uni, is used in sushi, gourmet cuisine, and products such as sauces and flavorings.

Sea urchins in particular satisfy a special niche in the otters» diet as a high - energy food source, and there were fewer to go around at Big Sur.

The researchers suggest that legalizing the fishing of pink sea urchin as a bycatch to the prawn fishery could allow prawn fishers to sell the urchins they already catch, rather than throwing them back.

Nestled among the long spikes of all sea urchins are shorter stalks topped with jaws known as pedicellariae.

Coral can be denuded to sand in various ways: (1) through abrasion of rubble, (2) as a by - product of endolithic bioerosion by endolithic sponges, or (3) as an excretory byproduct of urchin or parrotfish bioerosion.

This and other disc - shaped urchins are known as sand dollars.

Biologists need to conduct more tests looking at how the urchins respond to other environmental conditions — such as warmer water — in addition to higher acidity, she says.

Urchin outbreaks are best managed by addressing the underlying causes, such as overfishing of predators or herbivores, or nutrient pollution.

Management trials, such as those in the Seychelles, have indicated that coral recruitment can increase up to two-fold at sites where urchins were removed.

In some instances, however, rapid reductions in urchin density may be desirable to facilitate recovery of coral populations as part of a restoration strategy.

Scientists from the universities of Gothenburg (GU) and Kiel (CAU), as well as GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) found that ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

Scientists studied evolutionarily ancient animal models, such as sand dollars, skates, dogfish sharks and sea urchins, to gain insights into human physiology.

Another preservative, phenoxyethanol, was originally used as an insecticide and an insect repellant, and it can be toxic at low concentrations to invertebrates from shrimp to sea urchins.

Mission Vao (pronounced / «mɪʃɪn «veo /) was a female Rutian Twi «lek who lived as a street urchin on... Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.

As a moody and essentially faithful adaptation of Carr's novel, the series gets off to a chilly yet satisfying start, an adequate entry to a particular genre that features dim lighting, resourceful urchins, a class - conscious tone and the sort of arftul staging of corpses that signifies brilliant derangement on the part of the killer.

Plenty of strong support is offered by a cast of dozens, including Broadway heartthrob Aaron Tveit as rebellion leader Enjolras and little Daniel Huttlestone as precocious street urchin Gavroche.

Families are given priority in the process of assimilation, and Dottie wants to speed things up, so she begins assembling her own Perez family, with Juan as her husband and a homeless street urchin as her son.