Sentences with phrase «by octopuses»

Yet previous work, in part by the same authors, suggested the process is employed rather frequently by octopuses and squid to respond to changes in ocean water temperature.

Inspired by an octopus's suckers, researchers have constructed an inchwormlike robot that uses a pair of suction cups to scoot around vertical surfaces.

Inspired by the the octopus, engineers are creating robots that can twist their way around problems that rigid robots can't handle.This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on February 3, 2016.

Inspired by the the octopus, engineers are creating robots that can twist their way around problems that rigid robots can't handle.

They produce lots of eggs, and their eggs have relatively low mortality rates, whether thanks to patient brooding by an octopus mother or the protective mucous that covers embryonic squid.

In 2016, an «Octobot» was inspired by the octopus.

It's thought to be the first recorded case of a bottlenose dolphin being asphyxiated by an octopus.

Under Crosby's tutelage, Hope has been shot from a cannon, zapped in an electric chair and nearly strangled by an octopus.

Director Simon West tries for a manic energy and an anything - goes attitude, since, in addition to the snake bites, the movie also includes Turk riding a suitcase down a street and a man being strangled by an octopus.

Death by octopus (Macroctopus maorum): Laryngeal luxation and asphyxiation in an Indo - Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus).

There are also some wrecks populated by octopus, stingrays and myriad crustaceans.

Nathan Jurevicius has managed to carve himself a nice little empire with Scarygirl, a multimedia project about a young girl who was abandoned in a swamp only to be rescued and befriended by an octopus.

But Jim, every single game ever released starts at 10/10 by default, and you didn't list enough criticisms to dock a point from that based on the detailed criteria provided by the octopus that lives inside my brain.

«Foiled by an octopus,» writes Lauren De Vos of Save our Seas Foundation about the latest test - run of a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) system being developed to provide researchers with a cheap, simple way to monitor sealife.

Not exact matches

By allowing the ecosystem to rebuild, octopi and other sea life flourished, leading to an increase in catch and profits.

In the days following the flotilla incident, newspapers across the Arab and Muslim world have featured anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes by depicting Jews and Israelis as blood - thirsty monsters, or as sharks, octopuses and other marine wildlife swallowing up or crushing the flotilla ships.

It is virtuous that a man should in measure sympathize with the sufferings of the lower animals: only in measure, for someone who tried to sympathize with a shark or octopus or herring would be erring by excess...; their life is too alien to ours for sympathy to be anything but folly or affectation.

The political situation of Judah was becoming more precarious; the people had seen Samaria swallowed up by Assyria a century before, and now the new Babylonian octopus was extending its tentacles from the East.

At his new Italian trattoria in Jersey City, Carrino Provisions, Talde puts his own distinctive spin on puttanesca, the salty pasta dish sauce filled with olives, capers and garlic, by adding slow - simmered octopus and finishing it with an infused beef butter.

Mr Wheeler said British celebrity chef Rick Stein had declared on a visit to the Margaret River region in WA in late 2015 that Fremantle Octopus was the best he'd ever tasted, while the octopus is also used by high - end restaurants such as Rockpool and Nobu in Australia.

For the octopus: Prepare the octopus by rubbing with daikon and the 1/2 cup of salt in a large bowl to tenderize and clean the meat.

We Love: How the giant octopus mural behind the bar, painted by Will Mitchell of Square Away Signs, totally makes the space.

As children, our mom would simply prepare octopus just by boiling it and us squeezing some lemon on it.

Island chefs additionally cook seafood caught daily by fishermen, including mahi - mahi, octopus, tuna and more.

The mighty pulpwood forests of the North are being clear - cut to make paper, and octopuses are being netted by the millions for the great inking fleets of the Indian Ocean, all so American television critics can write a few more column inches this dim summer on the popularity of such «reality» programs as Big Brother, Survivor and The Real World.

Asuka responded to that and a Natural Selection by putting a modified octopus hold on Charlotte, and hoo man is that painful looking and also likely painful, just maybe!

Also, I'll probably be talking to myself and Ralphie might stop by to talk about his favourite batteries or windshield wipers or octopus nicknames.

They looked at me in disbelief for a moment and then the Pastor's wife came to my rescue, by stating she one told a table full of parishioners how she wanted to play with an octopus's tentacles, but It came out «testicles.»

What could be better for bath and pool fun than a master diver accompanied by his pals, shark & octopus?!

Image of seven - armed octopus courtesy of video by oceancontent Today we're returning to the deep to meet an octopus that, at first glance, hardly seems to earn that eight - limbed designation.Its very name sounds like an oxymoron — or a cautionary tale from a fishing accident.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

See the online article «Octopuses Are Smart Suckers» by Roland Anderson and Jennifer Mather: is.dal.ca / ~ ceph/TCP/smarts.html.

Anderson tested for play by presenting eight giant Pacific octopuses with floating pill bottles in varying colors and textures twice a day for five days.

Wells argues that ammonites probably responded to their changing environment by retreating to deeper and deeper waters, in a desperate bid to avoid both the new, fast - moving bony fish and their newly evolved molluscan relatives, the aerobically powered octopus and squid.

In 1992 Graziano Fiorito, a researcher at that lab, announced a bombshell: Octopuses could learn by watching other oOctopuses could learn by watching other octopusesoctopuses.

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

Many of the mimics on our list use just one trick to get by, but not the mimic octopus.

We've known for centuries that octopuses get around one of two ways: one, by crawling over surfaces with their arms, or, two, swimming with the help of their siphon's jet.

Most octopuses get around primarily by crawling along the seafloor.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

Wild Things Sarah Zielinski How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying Dolphins in Australia prep some meals by tossing live octopuses until the creatures are safe to eat (SN Online: 4/25/17).

«Only by observing the context in which these behaviors occur in the wild can we begin to piece together how this octopus has evolved behaviors so radically different from what occurs in most other species of octopus.»

Inspired by cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish, which change their skin textures for camouflage, researchers fabricated a stretchy material that inflates into various 3 - D shapes and flattens back out.

Enter the toy octopus: A team of researchers in California is exploring how the changing ocean chemistry affects a hermit crab's fight - or - flight response by simulating octopus attacks in the laboratory.

The researchers also looked at whether acidification altered the «boldness» of the crabs, or how long it took them to withdraw into their shells when attacked by a toy octopus held by a scientist.

The octopus has many traits that resemble our own: binocular vision, a playful mind, and penislike erectile tissue that enlarges by altering the pressure of the fluid within.

Now the researchers have delved deeper to uncover the mechanism responsible for the dramatic changes in color used by such creatures as squids and octopuses.

The octopus, by in large, practices very safe sex.

The octopus is suffused with nervousness; the body is not a separate thing that is controlled by the brain or nervous system.

But here is a behavior I find more intriguing: in at least two aquariums, octopuses have learned to turn off the lights by squirting jets of water at the bulbs and short - circuiting the power supply.