Sentences with phrase «as sea stars»

Some bilaterians, such as sea stars and sea urchins, actually have radially symmetrical bodies.

The outbreak of sea star wasting disease caused significant changes to the ecosystem as sea stars are a keystone species that plays an important role in controlling the numbers of other creatures.

Echinoderms Echinoderms are commonly known as sea stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

My favorite marine scavengers are starfish — popularly referred to as sea stars.

Not exact matches

The star's dinner is a «fatty fish» such as salmon, sea bass, black cod, or arctic char, served with more vegetables (surprise!)

The gospel insists that the cost of discipleship is steep and the reasons for evading the call are as numerous as the sands of the sea and the stars of the sky.

We must set our course by such stars as we can see, always prepared to change it as new currents, shoals, rocks, and channels are disclosed in the uncharted seas into which we sail.

Isaac was the child through whom God promises Abraham descendants that were as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sands of the sea.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, and there are almost as many places you can find seafood, from the grocer's freezer to five - star restaurants.

I would sleep under the stars wrapped up in blankets listening to sea as I fell asleep.

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.

Now that you know your wood sorrel from your sea buckthorn, it's time to get on a first - name basis with yet another game - changing Scandinavian chef: Christian, as in Christian Puglisi, the Sicilian - born, Danish - reared mind behind the Michelin - starred Relæ and Manfreds & Vin.

Here, he developed his avant - garde cuisine, using the sea as a larder and demonstrating his limitless capacity for creativity, which has helped him achieve international recognition, including two Michelin Stars.

Citing carefully filtered sources (among them, the musings of reality TV stars and some 16 - year - olds posting on a site called iWannaBeFamous.com), she draws the inevitable conclusion that as a culture we're drowning in a sea of narcissism:

Some species of sea star (known commonly but erroneously as «starfish») use asexual reproduction via fragmentation as their main reproductive mode.

Though this purple and yellow sea star is normally found in shallow habitats, it can live as deep as 200 meters.

Since sea stars can act as keystone predators, meaning their predatory activities shape an ecosystem, their loss could have far - reaching impacts, the researchers say.

If you're a brittle star, the answer turns out to be quite well (for an echinoderm)-- although it's a little complicated.The blunt - spined brittle star (Ophiocoma echinata) looks like a claymation creature from an alien horror movie as it moves its disk - like body along the sea floor with unexpected agility.

The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars.

Two sexes are combined in a single individual, as is the case with many snails, worms and some sea stars.

As ocean temperatures rise and oceanic diseases proliferate, species like sea stars struggle to survive, and scientists are looking for underlying causes.

As a young scientist he proceeded to do just that, experimentally removing sea stars in control plots, thereby creating profound changes in the intertidal community he studied.

The idea for a simple experiment that essentially involved playing God in the rocky intertidal zone came to him during a visit to the Scripps Institution Wharf in California, as he stood watching the carnivorous sea star Pisaster ochraceus devour the mussel Mytilus californianus.

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).

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«We expressed a need for something that could provide more immediate and local observation that could be launched easily and cover enough distance to conduct reconnaissance on potential routes through drifting sea ice,» says Cyrus Unvala, a lieutenant, junior grade, who served as public affairs officer onboard the Polar Star.

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).

Hewson speculates that the virus may have mutated as it wiped out various species of sea stars, allowing it to infect others.

As part of a large survey of possible planet - hosting stars, Lovis and his colleagues used the powerful HARPS (for High Accuracy Radial - Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile, 2,400 meters above sea level, which can detect stellar motions with precisions of less than one meter per second, roughly the walking speed of a human being.

These planets outside our solar system — which are known as exoplanets — are companions to stars, swimming in their own sea of darkness.

The stars in this next - level digestion tonic are the Beauty Chef's Inner Beauty Boost, crafted with coconut water, aloe vera, and active probiotics, as well as Sibu's Sea Berry Therapy, which is a crazy high source of omegas laced with over 190 bio-active compounds.

All manner of beasts & birds are found there; shoreless seas & stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever - present peril; both joy & sorrow sharp as swords.

I'm open, sensual, kind, gentle, romantic... a different lady, I'm a very family oriented, sensitive and tender person, I want to give all of my tenderness and care to my special man I enjoy nature, seeing the stars at night, listening to the sounds of nature, being near the water, swimming, as I love the ocean and sea, I like traveling, diving, dancing, drawing, skating and bowling, billiards, I enjoy music so much, classical and modern.

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Back in the U.S., Hagman began to make progress in his career, tallying up several TV guest - star appearances (including, presciently, a smiling villain on an episode of Sea Hunt), a regular role as lawyer Ed Gibson on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, and a beautifully played supporting role as a Russian / English interpreter in the nuclear nailbiter Fail Safe.

A ghostly ship looms silently ahead as the crippled, ocean - going, salvage tug Sea Star approaches.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty, skippered by Captain William Bligh (Charles Laughton), the cruelest taskmaster on the Seven Seas.

Wrapped in a fetching sarong, the star plays Tana, a South Sea damsel who doubles as an amateur detective.

What the world really needed, according to Geena Davis and husband - filmmaker Renny Harlin, was a pirate picture, starring Davis as a high - seas swashbuckler.

For all her roles on television and film, DeWitt has maintained a connection to theatre, having starred as Masha in Chekov's THREE SISTERS, originated the role of Fanny in Craig Lucas» SMALL TRAGEDY (for which the cast won an Obie Award), the revival of John Patrick Shanley's DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, among others.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

As Oliverâ $ ™ s gloomy father, Noah Taylor (the star of 1991â $ ™ s â $ ˜Flirting, â $ ™ a far superior movie in this genre) has a face full of deep crags like Brighton cliffs slashed by a winter of rough seas; he is now in prime condition to be cast and gruesomely murdered in a Nick Cave / John Hillcoat collaboration.

«In the Heart of the Sea» stars Chris Hemsworth («The Avengers,» «Rush») as the vessel's veteran first mate Owen Chase; Benjamin Walker («Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter») as its inexperienced Captain, George Pollard; Cillian Murphy («The Dark Knight Rises») as second mate Matthew Joy; and Ben Whishaw («Skyfall») as novelist Herman Melville, whose inquiries into the event 30 years later helped bring the story to light.

He directed and starred as Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea (2004), was Lex Luthor in Superman Returns (2006) by Bryan Singer with Brandon Routh, played Jack Abramoff in Casino Jack (2010).

This year's Critics» Choice Awards nominations has seen Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a mute custodian befriending a captured sea creature, triumph with an incredible 14 nods in the film category.

Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg from a script by Jeff Nathanson, the film also stars Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa, Brenton Thwaites Henry, Kaya Scodelario as Carina Smyth, Kevin R. McNally as Joshamee Gibbs, Golshifteh Farahani as the sea - witch Shansa, David Wenham as Scarfield, Stephen Graham as Scrum and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner.