Sentences with phrase «filter feeding»

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«It took us quite some time to come to the realization that these large teeth were framing narrow slots for filter feeding.»

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

But the whale's large, back molars were used in filter feeding, by expelling water through open slots between the closed teeth.

also displays features consistent with filter feeding, and extends the range of this large - bodied pachycormid clade from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.

Modern leopard seals have evolved similar feeding habits: they can filter feed on krill as well as catching larger prey like penguins.

«Contrary to what many people thought, it seems that that whales never used their teeth as a sieve, and instead evolved their signature filter feeding strategy only later — maybe after their teeth had already been lost,» said study lead co-author Associate Professor Alistair Evans, from the Monash School of Biological Sciences.

«The small amount of wear found on the teeth does not give a clear indication of specialised filter feeding,» says evolutionary biologist Alistair Evans at Monash University, Australia.

«We had hoped that the cooler spring and the efforts of the Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program to restock filter feeding shellfish in the Bay might restrict this year's bloom.

The study is titled «Feeding anatomy, filter - feeding rate, and diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus during surface ram filter feeding off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.»

These grooves allow their throat to expand during the huge intake of water during filter feeding.

The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow - moving filter feeding shark, the largest living fish species.

There are lots of great tools for combining multiple syndication sources into a single feed — known as mixing or splicing, but the market is very thin on tools to filter feed sources down to a subject or conceptual level.

Facebook Filter Feed, the best filtering extension, is only available for Chrome.

The entire area is covered with beautiful sea apples, their bodies decorated in amazing maroon, studded with golden beads and bright yellow or cream colored tentacles they use to filter feed on the nutrient rich waters.

They've tested a filtered Feed vs. a non-filtered feed (countless iterations), and the current version results in the most engagement.

Many basilosaurids were probably active hunters, similar to modern orcas, with mouths that were suited for biting and attacking, but Mystacodon has a mouth more suited for sucking in smaller animals, leading the researchers to conclude that Mystacodon most likely represents an intermediate step between raptorial and filter feeding and between the ancient basilosaurids and modern mysticetes.

While studying the mussels, Nogaro and Steinman noted that filter feeding and excretion activity by invasive mussels stimulated nutrient releases in the water column.

«Ancient South Carolina whale yields secrets to filter feeding's origins.»

Scientists suggest there is a connection between the function of the modern thyroid and the filter feeding mechanism of acorn worms.

«Once captured, prey was likely sucked deeper into the mouth for swallowing — a technique which, ultimately, may have given rise to baleen and filter feeding in the modern Mysticeti suborder of whales,» Dr Marx says.

«Our analysis of the acorn worm genomes provides a glimpse into our Cambrian ancestors» complexity and supplies support for the ancient link between the pharyngeal development and the filter feeding life style that ultimately contributed to our evolution,» explains Dr Simakov.

But the connection between suction feeding and filter feeding isn't well - established, Pyenson says.

«Filter feeding is the defining trait of modern whales — there are few ways in which this unique strategy could have evolved from tooth - bearing, predatory ancestors, and our study firmly rules out one of them.»

«Our findings provide crucial new insights into how the biggest animals ever evolved their most important trait: filter feeding,» he said.

«Filter feeding and gigantism are associated, which is a pattern we see in different groups of animals across the tree of life,» says Gregory Edgecombe, a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London, who wasn't involved in the research.

A fossil skull belonging to a whale that could both filter feed and catch large prey reveals the first step in this process.

The whale sharks feed by straining small animals from the water (filter feeding).

Dwarfing the average diver, these filter feeding corals thrive in the often vigorous currents which converge here.

Also expect to see corals filter feeding, lots more crabs plus increased stingray activity.

Almost all life in the Southern Ocean is ultimately dependent on the protein - rich crustaceans, from seabirds, seals and penguins, to the filter feeding whales.

However because coral live in nutrient depleted environments, in addition to filter feeding, polyps harbor single - celled photosynthesizing symbionts inside their cells.

If you really wanted to get fancy, try monitoring specific topics or keywords by filtering the feed with a product like Feedrinse.

My selection of Tweetdeck as the tool of choice for managing and filtering feeds was pretty random — I'd heard of it, and IT was willing to load it.

2) RSS — Filtered feeds are focused and on topic.

the law librarian associations could create some of these filtered feeds for their members, so not everyone has to reinvent the wheel;

At any rate, I've tried over the years to extract legal news from the daily flow of mainstream reporting, and I've had poor success given my limited ability to work the tools that grab and filter feeds.

Presumably OFL is counting on the same sort of editorial enthusiasm that motivates the people who contribute to Wikipedia and on the same «wisdom of the crowd» to filter the feeds.

Taking too many feeds, or failing to filter those feeds, is a recipe for information overload.

Previous posts, here, have discussed the approaches outlined in the article — aggregating and filtering feeds — and some of the tools.