Sentences with phrase «egg cases»

Brennan Phillips, from the University of Rhode Island, and colleagues were exploring the seafloor of the Galapagos Island in 2015 when they found large numbers of egg cases of the deep - sea skate.

'' [W] e showed our data to a bunch of shark experts, and they had seen anecdotal evidence of shark and ray egg cases near hydrothermal vents,» Phillips said.

Interestingly, shark experts also reported seeing egg cases of sharks and rays near hydrothermal vents.

After multiple dives, the research team made two significant discoveries — hundreds of skate egg cases on the seafloor, and in bundles on the rocks surrounding a catshark nursery area.

Walking the sea I see in the ropey egg cases the umbilical cord's birthed death; my little faulty breath that displaces my mother's linked neaklaces

«Modular Evolution of Egg Case Silk Genes Across Orb - Weaving Spider Superfamilies.»

This material, used for capturing prey, rappelling from high places, and building egg cases and dwellings, is itself fantastically diverse, its makeup varying from species to species.

The Great Eggcase Hunt aims to get as many people as possible hunting for egg cases that have either been washed ashore or found by divers and snorkelers underwater

Sallan and her team examined Bandringa remains from three sites in the Mazon Creek deposit in Illinois, including egg casings, bones, and soft tissue from juveniles and hatchlings.

Backlit egg case of a little skate embryo (Leucoraja erinacea), showing emerging pectoral and pelvic fins, external gills, and a large yolk.

Scientists hung 11 egg cases containing shark embryos 3 to 4 months old in a water tank in front of a bright light, exposing the developing sharks» silhouettes.

A catshark's egg nest, with its yellow egg cases.

The distinctive egg cases (cocoons) of Clitellata, however, are relatively common in the fossil record, although their potential for phylogenetic studies has remained largely unexplored.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk, the root of Blathers's disgust of insects is revealed: when he was younger, a mantis egg case ruptured on his writing desk, causing thousands of mantises to fly out.

These are the very same mantis from which the garden supply store egg cases are often available.

Moon Snail: Polinices species Small, globular, 1/2», white to grey snail, that lay their sandy donut shaped egg cases (1» in diameter) in the shallow intertidal.

Players can pre-order the game at local retailers or right here (the Yoshi Egg Case has only been announced for the UK so far).

If pubic lice infest your eyelashes, you could experience itching or burning, and might be able to see egg cases attached to your eyelashes.

Shark, skate and ray egg cases are often referred to as mermaids purses.

We will try to illustrate some of the ditferent types of egg cases that the various gastropods lay to protect their eggs until hatching.

Blend the remaining half with the strawberries and raspberries for 2 minutes, the spoon into your egg case and freeze.

Rinse out the processor, then blend the second half of the cashew / cacao mix with the juice of half a lemon and 1 tsp turmeric, before spooning into the egg case and freezing.

For the cashew cream eggs, spoon the white mixture into the other 12 egg cases, but don't fill them all the way to the top.

In that dense shrub of matured plants you could train your eyes to look for the movements of praying mantids, which favor the plants for placement of their egg cases.

Spoon again into the egg case and place it back in the freezer.

Spoon the pink mixture into your egg case (I used a silicon one) and place it in the freezer.

The offspring hatched in 2011, leaving behind these egg cases.

Nothing was alive but spiders — everywhere spiders hauling their egg cases in and out of holes in the ashes.

But Garb and her colleague Cheryl Hayashi have unraveled the genetic code for one of the more perplexing types of silk — the strands spiders use to weave their egg cases.

These qualities alone would make an impressive fabric, but Garb and Hayashi speculate that egg cases may even block ultraviolet light and, unlike certain kinds of spider silk, resist shrinkage.

Orb weavers have seven types of silk glands for making webs and egg cases and capturing prey.

Now, they and their egg cases hitch rides on tires and muddy boots and spread when anglers dump bait in woods and waterways.

Brown - banded bamboo sharks can sense these fields even before they've hatched from their egg cases, researchers report today in PLOS ONE.

But when researchers turned on electrodes to produce an electric field near the egg cases, the unhatched sharks froze and stilled their gills for several seconds (see video).

Scientists have known for more than a century that a green alga (Oophila amblystomatis) grows in the egg cases of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)-- the strange pairing is visible to the naked eye in the green hue of salamanders» eggs.

«This is really such a strange arrangement to think about, that the salamanders allow the algae to live in their egg cases.

Eighty - nine percent of the eggs cases were laid in water that was hotter compared with the background temperature.

We went on a random Wednesday afternoon when there weren't many children, so I took full advantage of the learning exhibits to play with shark egg cases & to pet some starfish, haha.

Tapeworm eggs are also microscopic in size but they are released in an egg case that is muscular and has a pore that expels the eggs as it moves and uses up energy.

When a tapeworm segment (egg case) is expelled it is about 1/2 to 3 / 4th of an inch long (around 10 to 20 mm) and is usually moving.

Very fresh fecal samples are needed to detect tapeworms, and it may take multiple samples being evaluated over the course of a few days to find the tapeworm proglottids (egg cases) or ova (which may be free - floating if the proglottid has ruptured).

It's an hour hike through the jungles of the Roaring Creek Valley; along the way Rudy points out the parallel scars raked on a young tree by a jaguar marking his territory and shows me a fat mother tarantula guarding an egg case.

Beach combing will usually reveal many of these egg cases.

As the wax from the egg casing slowly melts away it exposes a mini raptor bubbling out of a boiling swamp of gooey wax.