Sentences with phrase «cave environment»

The researchers speculate that the insects» sex organs and sex - role reversal may have been driven over evolutionary time by the resource - poor cave environment in which the bugs live.

«When I first saw the animal and its striking appearance, I immediately realized that this is a new, hitherto unnamed and highly adapted to cave environment species.

Even studying the insects in their natural cave environment presents a delicate balance between scientific enlightenment and harmful intrusion.

oxygen and helium, expedition members were able to obtain rock and sediment samples and video records of deep marine cave environments.

«When I first saw the animal and its striking appearance, I immediately realized that this is a new, hitherto unnamed and highly adapted to cave environment species,» says Pavel Stoev, the lead author describing the discovery.

What is more, she even thinks it possible that the epigenetic changes were somehow triggered by the cave environment in the first place.

The Oaxaca Cave Sleeper is morphologically adapted to the cave environment.

Species with an entire life cycle confined to cave environments are exceptionally rare in the group.

But while there seems to have been a similar scenario at Paisley Caves, those local species didn't follow humans out of the cave environment.

At first, Rodrigo Ferreira from the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil was focused on a description of species in the cave environment where Neotrogla lives.

«When humans left the cave environment, the bugs went with them and adapted to become the cosmopolitan human pests with which we now are familiar,» Adams said.

«Cavefish could exist virtually everywhere in principle, and there's no good reason to expect long evolution times for them to adapt to cave environments,» she says.

See unique rock formations that grow in this cave environment.

Most cave divers made their own gear or adapted ocean diving gear to fit the cave environment.