Sentences with phrase «from sea snail»

Japanese archaeologists excavating the cave discovered both a finished and an unfinished fishhook that had been carved and ground from sea snail shells.

Not exact matches

One entrepreneur aims to transform the sea snails that have overrun the waters in his fishing town from pest to delicacy.

Jellison and colleagues from the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory collected ochre sea stars and black turban snails — two common species along the Pacific coastline — from tide pools on the Bodega Marine Reserve.

Species of murex (a genus of Mediterranean sea snail) were highly valued in Roman times because of a rich purple dye that could be extracted from the living creature.

Deep - sea gastropods, like snails and mussels, have been found hundreds of kilometers from their native vents.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

The natural world is full of potential cancer - killers, and so far our arsenal contains compounds and molecules harvested from grapes and berries, annatto seeds, olive oil, and even sea snail eggs.

Even though bicarbonate sounds like carbonate, it's useless to sea animals, from snails and clams to sea butterflies.

Consider stocking at least a few representatives from each of the following groups: Sponges — many types, shapes, sizes and colors Zoanthids — colonial anemones (some can be harmful to true corals) Anemones — short tentacle, long tentacle and carpet Corallimorphs — mushroom anemones, Ricordea, Discosoma and elephant - ear Cerianthids — tube - dwelling anemones Mollusks (with and without shell)-- sea slugs, sea hares, nudibranches, turbo snails and many types of living shells and clams Cephalopods — octopus and cuttlefish Worms — feather dusters Arthropods — crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp and lobsters Echinoderms — sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea stars (starfish), serpent stars and brittle stars.

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.

She explained to me that once the sea snails were cooked — in salt water from the sea mind you — they would each pluck the snails out of their shells with their clothespins and eat them over rice.

This will probably be your last opportunity to earn Super Sea Snails for quick re-rolls of your gear abilities, so from now on you'll need to grind for the coins necessary to change the abilities without them.

In ancient times purple was obtained by means of a complicated process from the gland of a sea snail, and was much sought - after as a particularly valuable dye for artists» colours.

They were Color Field gone organic, artisanal, made with various teas, powdered iron, mica, sea snail dye and water from the East and Hudson Rivers.

Previous works from Yeung include plants and sea snails in vitrines, palm - tree shaped candle stands, and other references to natural scenery.

On her cruise through the Scotia Sea (just north of the Antarctic peninsula), Bednarsek collected snails at depths of 200 meters from 6 different stations.

In ancient Phoenicia, the dye was painstakingly acquired from tropical sea snails, hence its exorbitant price and royal status.