Sentences with phrase «as sea butterflies»

The researchers studied one kind of pteropod, common planktonic snails known as sea butterflies for the winglike body parts that help them glide through the water.

Not exact matches

As my mother's son, I also went a little rogue with my recipe: a whole black sea bass (you can use whatever white flaky fish you like), that gets butterflied and stuffed with a spicy garlicky herb mixture before being roasted.

«You could compare it to doing experiments on butterflies and expecting them to behave like caterpillars,» says Caroline Durif, a scientist at Norway's Institute of Marine Research, who was not involved in the work but co-authored the 2013 study, which used adult eels captured as they started their return migration to the Sargasso Sea.

Scientists suspect that as the oceans become more acidic, sea butterflies will change.

And just as for sea butterflies, the carbonate shortage that comes with ocean acidification means trouble for coral reefs.

The problems could run all the way up the food chain: Reduce the menu for one animal, and you've reduced the menu for other animals, as well (fewer sea butterflies means hard times for the animals that eat sea butterflies).

Navarre Beach offers a very family - friendly atmosphere, as there is plenty of sites to see including the Navarre Beach Science Station, the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center, the Navarre Beach Marine Park and the Panhandle Butterfly House.

Nonetheless NOAA's Nina Bednarsek has been preparing a preliminary report arguing sea butterflies should be listed as endangered and NOAA's cartoon appears to be an attempt to gain support for her claims.

The sea butterfly joins the parade of icons like polar bears, penguins, pika, mangroves and Parmesan's butterflies where the effects of natural climate variability or direct human interference are obscured and falsely promoted as catastrophic climate change.

If you google «ocean acidification,» the first 3 websites presented according to «Google's truth rankings» are: 1) Wikipedia, 2) NOAA's PMEL site featuring the graphic cartoon shown below with a dissolving pteropod shell (a sea butterfly) as the icon of ocean acidification, and 3) the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal site similarly featuring a dissolving sea butterfly shell.

Based on observations, they concluded sea butterflies «are perhaps not as vulnerable to ocean acidification as previously claimed, at least not from direct shell dissolution.»