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It's not unusual to spot up to 10 different species of nudibranchs and flatworms on a single dive.

And our expert guide Ranti from Thalassa Dive Resort found us this polyclad flatworm on the back of a sea cucumber.

Not exact matches

Inspired by flatworm memory experiments from the 1950s, researchers are on the hunt for the elusive engram — the physical mark that a memory leaves on the brain — Laura Sanders reported in «Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 22).

Near the top of that list is the New Zealand flatworm, a relative newcomer to Ireland's shores, which feeds on native earthworms that provide important ecosystem services as well as currying favor with farmers for enhancing the fertility and drainage of agricultural soils.

There are enough troublesome pests in Ireland today, such as the introduced New Zealand flatworm, which people would like to send on its merry way with some modern - day St. Patrick - style sorcery.

The researchers launched a set of flatworms into space via SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service Mission 5 on Jan. 10, 2015.

Tourists spending a recuperative holiday on the Italian coast may be envious of the regenerative abilities of locally found flatworm Macrostomum lignano.

The New Guinea flatworm, which has helped decimate some snail populations on certain Pacific islands, is now rearing its head in Florida.

About 15 international research groups on three continents are actively working on Macrostomum flatworms, says co-author Lukas Schärer from the University of Basel.

Murty has since died — though his name lives on in a namesake flatworm, Pseudodiplodiscoides murtyi — and Rao could not be located to confirm the theory.

These curious green flatworms — found along much of Europe's Atlantic coast — run on inbuilt solar power, meaning they never have to worry about eating.

These flatworms live off energy provided by the green algae they store in their tissues — allowing them to spend their lives sunbathing on sandy beaches

The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea are flatworms with bilateral symmetry used as models in the research on cell regeneration and stem cells.

Short for «evolutionary developmental biology,» Evo Devo posits that the same set of master genes, with differing on - off switches, controls the development of basic body structures in animals ranging from flatworms to humans.

If you look close enough, you can just see them squeezing their way in between grains of sand and scooting along on seaweed — tiny flatworms.

Depending on topics, I have been working on a variety of animal models, including flatworms, snails, crustaceans, fishes, amphibians, birds and mammals.

Insights gained from our basic research on planarian biology have also led us to study parasitic flatworms, like schistosomes and tapeworms.

To accommodate the ever increasing amount and complexity of research data, WormBase continues to advance its practices on data acquisition, curation and retrieval to most effectively deliver comprehensive knowledge about Caenorhabditis elegans, and genomic information about other nematodes and parasitic flatworms.

Other organisms currently on NHGRI 19s high - priority list for sequencing are: the cow; the South American gray, short - tailed opossum (a marsupial); the red flour beetle; the acorn worm; the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea; 10 more species of fruit fly; four more species of fungi; and two ciliated microorganisms, Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila.

Now normally it is the dive guides with the amazing eyes to spot the tiny little creatures but on this dive, instructor Bryce was lucky to spot this flatworm that was drifting with the current, all curled up in a ball before settling on a bit of coral to open up and hang on.

With hard and soft corals surrounding you, feast your eyes on millions of small glass fish, flatworms and ornate ghost fish to the bigger unicorn fish, surgeonfish, cobia rays, and octopus.

The macro that we have been spotting around here is squat lobsters, painted spiny lobsters, squat shrimps, anemone shrimps, peacock tail shrimps, crabs, nudibranch, flatworms, ornate and robust ghost pipe fish and so on.

Looking carefully on these sponges you'll find even weirder looking critters like this Hairy squat lobster and polyclad flatworm behind it.

The visibility, even though limited, did nt keep the divers from encountering a Barramundi Grouper, a couple of Wobbeng Sharks, a Pygmy Seahorse, a Crocodile Flathead together with other macro life found (nudibranchs and flatworms) on the hard and soft coral present especially on the shallower part of the dive site.

Some of the macro life seen on this dive included: Orangutan Crab, flatworms, blennies, Hydroid Crab and also the first specimen of the endemic Raja Ampat Epaulette Shark, also known as the Walking Shark.

Some of the macro life seen on this dive included: Orangutan Crab, flatworms, blennies, Hydroid Crab and also an Electric Clam!

Some of the ones discovered on this dive were: Decorator Crabs, Snowflake Moray, flatworms, nudibranchs, (juvenile) Broadclub Cuttlefish and more.

YAY I GOT A FLATWORM Looks like it was possible to get on the island afterall!

Parasitic worms called trematodes, also known as flukes and flatworms, would attempt to feed on these ancient clams and the clams would respond by developing pits to keep them out.