Sentences with phrase «carnivorous species»

Some of the farmed fish that are quickly gaining popularity, like salmon and shrimp, are carnivorous species that eat fishmeal or fish oil produced from forage fish from the wild.

Suppose you are looking for a really good source of animal protein for carnivorous species of fish.

As a mostly carnivorous species, dogs require animal - based proteins such as meat, poultry, fish and eggs.

Many pet foods have a cereal base, which may meet nutrient profiles, yet still be inappropriate as the main ingredient in a diet intended for carnivorous species such as cats, and in some cases, dogs.

One example of a rare carnivorous species with a rapidly diminishing natural range requiring urgent conservation and management is Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. (Droseraceae), a rootless submerged carnivorous macrophyte with a disjunct global distribution (Elansary, Adamec & Štorchová, 2010; Cross, 2012a).

He hopes to answer that question by doing similar studies on other blood compounds and other carnivorous species, such as wolves.

Sundews, pitcher plants and other carnivorous species also supplement their diets with insects, but it seems that only the flytraps have learned to count.

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

Carnivorous species died as their food sources did, but those dinosaurs with toothless beaks could feast on fallen seeds long after plants died.

Not exact matches

In 1991, William Hammer, an NSF - funded researcher hunting for fossils in Antarctica's Beardmore Glacier region, discovered this skull (left) and a large femur, which belonged to a completely unknown species of therapod — a bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur whose members include the more familiar tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors.

Four new carnivorous sponge species have recently been discovered in the deep sea.

There are also several species of carnivorous plants, though most are primarily insectivorous.

New species found include amphipod crustaceans, a carnivorous moonsnail, and a new species of gastropod.

The fossils discussed in the paper are of dinosaurs of the species Ornithomimus edmontonicus, which means they looked something like modern ostriches, and are theropods — bipedal and carnivorous — as are most of the feathered dinosaurs already known to science.

Their extensive quarrying generated 56 cases of spectacular fossils «representing three species of three - toed horses, rhinoceroses... many species of antelope and gazelle... birds, and a variety of carnivorous mammals.»

In C. follicularis and N. alata, basic chitinases and purple acid phosphatases share numerous identical or highly similar amino acid substitutions that don't occur in non-carnivorous species, suggesting that these alterations may help these enzymes function in special, carnivorous ways.

Additionally, the overall composition of species changed significantly; carnivorous mollusks appeared to fare particularly well, increasing in prevalence at all sites, while their herbivorous relatives often decreased in abundance.

Several species — such as the thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, or the forest ox known as the kouprey — have been searched for many times without success, that likely indicates they really are extinct, Fisher and Blomberg suggest.

The paper describes two new species, both archaic aquatic carnivorous amphibians.

A new species of carnivorous crustacean has been identified, which roamed the seas 435 million years ago, grasping its prey with spiny limbs before devouring it.

Based on analysis of the footsteps she has concludes that the two animals measured respectively 1.6 meters and 1.1 meters at hip height, and that they are probably carnivorous dinosaurs of the species Megalosauripus.

Two groups — the turtles and carnivorous marsupial — are overrepresented, while most groups of threatened species are the result of opportunistic collections rather than a major focus.

Next they will establish three outdoor carnivorous plant habitats and three mobile carnivorous plant nurseries that will allow children in eight schools to discover ways that research into these species has informed discoveries in neuroscience, liquid - repellent surface materials, and medical adhesives.

«This new species of carnivorous dinosaur is adding a little more (to the) diversity of dinosaurs of Portugal.

A newly discovered genus and species of primitive carnivorous animal that lived in what is now Europe roughly 55 million years ago sheds light on the origins...

«The evolutionary history of the dog suggests a predilection for a diet that is more omnivorous in nature, while the history of the cat indicates that this species has consumed a purely carnivorous diet throughout its evolutionary development,» explains Case.

Most species are carnivorous, and they trap food ranging in size from microscopic to large chunks.

Extraordinary collections of orchids, ferns, carnivorous plants, and tropical species are housed in the humid hot houses; and the cycad and palm garden features some dramatic and architectural species from around the world.

The species succumbed to the combined threats of fishermen's nets and non-native carnivorous fish.

When you here the phrase «endangered species» undoubtedly the cute, cuddly and carnivorous pop to mind,

Once there, however, the carnivorous and voracious toad preyed upon smaller native species and killed predators that fed upon it.

From a spectacularly weird anglerfish to the largest carnivorous sundew plant seen in the New World, this list of novel new species gives hope that all isn't lost.

When you here the phrase «endangered species» undoubtedly the cute, cuddly and carnivorous pop to mind, but according to new global analysis by The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London's Natural History Museum and the IUCN shows that one in five of the world's plant species are threatened with extinction — in other words, about 76,000 of the world's estimated 380,000 species of plants have difficult times ahead.