Sentences with phrase «build animal skeletons»

Not exact matches

Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 17 have found that sponges build their skeletons in a completely different way than other animals do.

Roger lovingly describes radiolarians, some of which build skeletons of strontium sulfate while others manage to eat multicelled animals.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves in ocean water, making it more acidic and difficult for animals to build their shells or skeletons, especially corals.

Marine animals like sea butterflies and coral use calcification to build shells and outer skeletons.

In a slow - motion sequence - accompanied by the slowly - building tone of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra - he picks up an animal bone and uses it to smash at and shatter the skeleton, first tentatively and then more vigorously.

Because babysitting a dark building full of inanimate statues, miniature panoramas, taxidermy animals and preserved skeletons doesn't sound like it should take much skill, Larry pays little attention to the job training or instruction manual provided by the three elderly security guards (played by Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs) whom he will be replacing.

Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate that many marine animals use to build their skeletons and shells.

«More acidic waters make it difficult for corals and other calcifying organisms, such as animals with shells, to form their skeletons, which are ultimately responsible for building the physical structure of the reef,» says Australian Institute of Marine Science research scientist, Dr Janice Lough.»

Ocean acidification poses an added danger to corals and other sea animals that need calcium carbonate to build shells or skeletons.3, 11,12 As concentrations of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere rise, the oceans absorb carbon dioxide and become more acidic.