Sentences with phrase «founded urchin»

Early on, he pitched his college friend and long - time Google manager and tech entrepreneur Brett Crosby, who founded Urchin Software.

They found the urchins indeed excavated their own cozy cavities within a few months, with shallower pits and flatter urchins occurring on granite reefs, and deeper pits with taller urchins on sandstone and mudstone reefs.

On the first rung of the «optional» piece list you'll find the Urchin, the Thug, and the Gang.

Not exact matches

If you look hard enough, it's even possible to find grown - up flavors like bourbon butter pecan, blue cheese pear and foie gras or sea urchin.

«We express confidence in the ability of INEC to conduct free and fair election in Anambra, but find it nauseating when some political desperadoes and urchins arrogate to themselves powers they do not have.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

While it isn't uncommon to find sea urchins attached to elevated rocks in an attempt to snap food from ocean currents, NOAA scientists aren't quite sure why so many have chosen to gather here.

These are biomineral crystals found in a sea urchin tooth.

FOSSILISED sea urchins have been found embedded in the walls of medieval churches, embellished with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even shaped into Palaeolithic hand - axes.

Sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae, crustaceans, and numerous mollusks, such as mussels, find their home here.

His findings, along with the sea urchin and worm results, suggest that aging and longevity aren't the same things.

«But what we found is that aging is not inevitable: sea urchins don't appear to age, even when they are short - lived.

Commonly found in the waters from Baja California to Point Conception — although they can sometimes be found as far north as Monterey Bay — sheephead feed on sea urchins, whose grazing habits can wreak havoc on community composition in kelp forests.

They found that although the variegated sea urchin, L. variegatus, has a much lower life expectancy in the wild than the other two species they studied, it displayed no evidence of a decline in regenerative capacity with age, which suggests that senescence may not be tied to a short life expectancy in the wild.

They found more than 100 probable new species, from barnacles to heart - shaped sea urchins.

The current paper combines previous findings with new work using visual surveys and path analysis to quantify the direct and indirect effects of sheephead on sea urchins and macroalgal assemblages.

While some of the qualities, such as color and consistency, were a good match, they found that the pink urchin roe on average weighed 80 % less than the red urchin.

If a city otter could not find its first choice of prey, usually abalone, it could fall back on its second, such as crabs or urchins.

The study found that the pink sea urchin is most abundant at a depth of 250 to 300 meters (820 to 984 feet), similar depths where spot prawn fishers set their traps, and that winter was the primary time when the urchins produced edible roe.

«Sea urchin protein provides insights into self - assembly of skeletal structures: Researchers are investigating a protein found inside the spicules of a sea urchin embryo to understand what makes these proteins such efficient «brick organizers».»

Developmental biologist Gary Wessel and colleagues at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, found the answer by studying sea urchin eggs during fertilization.

To find out how well evolution can keep pace with the changing environment, Melissa Pespeni at Indiana University in Bloomington and her colleagues reared purple sea urchin larvae in water of normal or raised acidity.

To find out, this evolutionary biologist, then at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., raised purple sea urchins in her lab.

Scientists from the universities of Gothenburg (GU) and Kiel (CAU), as well as GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) found that ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

Genes very similar to Smed - beta - catenin - 1 are found in animals ranging from jellyfish to humans, and they have been implicated in posterior tissue specification in frogs, sea urchins and many other animals.

Together with previous findings, a total of seven out of eight bilaterian species examined (human, mouse, cattle, chicken, fish medaka, sea urchin and fruit fly) representing three different phyla express Boule in the adult testis [35], [53], [60].

The candle holder is my tallest item, then the height graduates down to the lamp, then to the orchid, then the frame, and lastly my little gold urchin (my favorite accessory at the moment — source found below) giving this vignette flow and balance that is critical in creating any successful styling job!

How embarrassing that after hearing these stories of noble self - sacrifice, she found a gleaming Mercedes SUV waiting for her at the curb and had to clamber into its plush leather cabin as she bade her fellow street urchins goodbye.

They were high on the list for our guests and the dive guides didn't disappoint finding several pairs on the fire urchins.

Four of the urchins that are found in the lagoon off Ambergris Caye are described in the following section.

Here you will find the most beautiful corals, colorful species of both large and small fishes, shrimp, parrotfish, fairy basslet, sea urchins, spider crabs, lobster and many other small critters of the sea.

Flamboyant nudibranchs, frogfish, feather stars, tunicate's, cleaner shrimp, ghost pipe fish, green turtles, leaf fish, fire urchins, and coleman shrimp can all be found here.

As you walk along the shore, you'll find seashells, fruits that had been washed away and even small sea urchins.

It's a sea urchin party out there and you are invited — they tend to congregate near the rivermouth mainly, but you might find a few staggerers anywhere.

We can find different species of Sea Urchins, and a large variety of fish.

Over in Horseshoe Bay we found some beautiful Coleman shrimps on fire urchins at «Yellow Wall», and had a great night dive on a critter - filled black sand at «Torpedo Bay».

Sea urchins can be found wedged into the cracks, along with lionfish, scorpionfish and large moray eels.

For instance, in a small side room, US artist Dario Robleto's Setlists for a Setting Sun (The Crystal Palace)(2014) and The Sky, Once Choked with Stars, Will Slowly Darken (2011) are comprised of, among other minerals and objects, sea urchin teeth, homemade crystals, glass domes, audio recordings and mica flakes (which can be found in the mountains of New Mexico).

The research found that sea urchin larvae were not impacted by levels of increasing «acidification» of sea water that some have predicted will represent ocean waters 100 + years from now.

«In light of these several findings, the Australian, New Zealand and U.S. researchers felt safe in stating that the sea urchins «did not only persist but actually «thrived» under extreme conditions.»

«It's important to tell your story through your space,» she says, referring to objects she added that were collected over time, from a sea urchin found in a quirky San Francisco shop to a sepia sketch purchased on the streets of Paris during her first trip there with her husband.