Sentences with phrase «by jellyfish»

Jellyfish and corals are graceful ocean animals, and home lighting fixtures or poufs, inspired by jellyfish and corals add unusual and beautiful accents to room decorating ideas....

Wasn't getting chased by hordes of angry creatures, stung by jellyfish, stabbed by spikes, crushed by stones, burned by fire, and dissolved by acid enough for you?

I imagine the horses wouldn't really be that bothered by jellyfish since they have a nice coat of hair to protect their skin...?

Young children and adults will be amazed by the jellyfish and hunter sharks they see at Cretaquarium Thalassocosmos.

There are no risks of being swept away, eaten by sharks or stung by jellyfish, it is just is a great spot for relaxing in nature's bathing spot.

By now you've undoubtedly heard about the scene in which Nicole Kidman's Southern hussy urinates on Zac Efron — to be fair, he had been stung by a jellyfish — and that Lee Daniels's follow - up to Precious is already being touted as a nouveau camp classic.

And if one of you gets stung by a jellyfish... well, we'll leave it to your imagination what might happen next... 2.

While learning to paddle, I got hit by a jellyfish — session over...

Not to be confused with an itchy, stinging rash caused by jellyfish larvae, these sea lice are planktonic marine parasites which feed on many types of fish.

Global dead zones dominated by jellyfish and microbes; coastal waters too toxic for aquaculture and human habitation.

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It also holds out hope for other altered ecosystems now dominated by jellyfish.

Instead, the mechanical forces created by the jellyfish's own muscle contractions were essential for symmetrization.

It will deploy grippers inspired by jellyfish to embrace the target before steering itself on a suicide dive into Earth's atmosphere.

Both of my children were stung by jellyfish in Negril, Jamaica, and (I would never have believed it had I not seen it) a little crab pinched my daughter's toe in Florida and hung on for dear life.

It was suggested that Smalling was in hospital in Bali following a surfing accident, which may have been followed up by a jellyfish sting, so said The Sun.

After a minute or so we were surrounded by jellyfish!

As an egg ages, the white deteriorates, which is why some poached eggs go floppy, surrounded by jellyfish - like tendrils of whites.

It'll be like watching «Survivor» gone wrong — where some poor tribe members are stung by jellyfish, fall into fires, or step on stingrays...

Not exact matches

Not injured myself, but in Hawaii many times I've been stung by a man - of - war [jellyfish] which hurt a lot.

A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish is small enough to crawl, walk and swim inside the human body.

There are many forms of Jellyfish, and various other animals, that have no brain... by your thinking you can eat them.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

Jellyfish are widely eaten in Asia, by typically marinating the bell (or body) in salt and potassium alum for several weeks to produce a pickle - like texture.

Biologist José Luis Acuña of the University of Oviedo in Spain and his colleagues now suggest that jellyfishes are just as effective at mealtime as fishes when judged by the right measures.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

The behaviour also had to be driven by a need to sleep that increased the longer the jellyfish was awake, so that a day of reduced sleep would be followed by increased rest.

And the Indonesian mimic octopus fools predators by impersonating poisonous soles and venomous lionfish, sea snakes, and possibly jellyfish and sea anemones.

Widder soon realized that she could identify many animals by the type and duration of flash they made — jellyfish, for example, might appear as a bright circle in the darkness.

Researchers observed that the rate at which Cassiopea jellyfish pulsed their bell decreased by one - third at night, and the animals were much slower to respond to external stimuli such as food or movement during that time.

The eye clusters are weighed down by heavy crystals so they're always upright, even if the jellyfish is swimming upside - down.

The Benguela ecosystem, once a rich sardine fishery, is today infested by algal blooms and jellyfish swarms.

What is clear is that in coastal areas around the world, people have unwittingly created spawning grounds for huge numbers of jellyfish simply by building docks and other structures that quickly multiplying jellyfish polyps can attach to.

A scientist supported by the NSF was the first to isolate the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria.

Parker was inspired by the similarity between the pumping heart muscle tissue he had seen in the lab and the jellyfish propulsion he saw while visiting the New England Aquarium in Boston.

In the short term, with increasing temperatures as well as local human - made threats like coastal development, pollution, and over-fishing, the study found that corals — tiny animals related to jellyfish — would be over-run by seaweed which would, in effect, suffocate them.

«Symmetrization is a combination of the mechanical forces created by the muscle contractions and the viscoelastic jellyfish body material,» Abrams says.

So Jeffrey Karp at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and colleagues have devised a better method — by following the lead of jellyfish.

«The protein found in jellyfish is excited by blue or violet light of 390 nanometres, and shines with a green glow,» says Youvan.

Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.

By studying moon jellies, the species Aurelia aurita, Gemmell and other researchers have recently found that jellyfish pull off this feat by creating zones of high and low pressure around their body that alternately suck and push them forwarBy studying moon jellies, the species Aurelia aurita, Gemmell and other researchers have recently found that jellyfish pull off this feat by creating zones of high and low pressure around their body that alternately suck and push them forwarby creating zones of high and low pressure around their body that alternately suck and push them forward.

In the murky, green water, thousands — maybe hundreds of thousands — of pale pink disks, a flood of jellyfish parade by as I observe.

To us land dwellers, even the present - day deep sea is foreign, a crushing black space haunted by spectral oddities: glass squids, carnivorous jellyfish, a fever dream of fluorescence.

It has been recommended by the Australian Resuscitation Council for any jellyfish sting.

Masaru Okabe, a biologist at Osaka University in Japan, engineered these green mice by injecting into mouse embryos a jellyfish gene that codes for a glowing protein called green fluorescent protein.

«It shows for the first time that jellyfish tissue — once assumed to be a dead end for resources in the food web — can be recycled back into the ecosystem by the gobies.»

By about 520 million years ago, though, early animals were spending some time on land — reducing the chances of jellyfish becoming fossils.

The idea of a global increase in jellyfish, says Condon, «was fueled by a few local and regional case studies.»

American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen.

The trend was countered, however, by the finding that there was no difference in the proportion of increasing versus decreasing jellyfish populations over time.