Sentences with phrase «from small crustaceans»

A: Krill oil comes from small crustaceans, not fatty fish, and typically contains more EPA.

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Existing haemorrhage control devices comprise a syringe filled with small capsules of cellulose - based sponge, coated with chitosan, a natural agent derived from the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans that promotes blood clotting.

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, for example, marine biologist Steven Haddock recently discovered that certain jellyfish can not manufacture their own luciferin and that they probably get it from eating small crustaceans.

Most sea sponges feed on single - celled organisms, which they filter from water, but some are more voracious, catching small crustaceans.

Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.

When coral reefs begin to die, the crustaceans and small animals that live within the reefs and find shelter from bigger predators begin to die off as well.

Krill oil is made from the Antarctic krill, small shrimp - like crustaceans or prawn - like creatures.

Instead of teeth, gray whales possess baleen plates that hang from their upper jaw to form a sieve for filtering mostly benthic, mud - dwelling creatures such as worms, crustaceans and other small animals out of the bottom muck.

UB graduate student Matthew Ballinger helps to prepare sediment cores from a small lake on the Alaskan tundra that contains a new species of the crustacean Eurycercus.