Sentences with phrase «in deeper seas»

It is in the methyl hydrates in the deeper seas.
It's where the young predators hide out, stay warm, and learn to hunt, before joining adults in deeper seas.
«Any one who harms one of these little ones, it would have better for them not to have been born or to have a millstone tied around their necks and drowned in the deepest sea
The technology of the material used to transport 24 kl of wine in the deep sea journey has also moved pace quickly in this time.
Not everybody relies so heavily on seafood on the mercury that's in deep sea fish or even just regular seafood.
This subtle change caused many volatile petroleum chemicals to dissolve more rapidly and become entrapped in the deep sea.
A mind - boggling variety of strange, unidentified living things has been spotted in the deep seas of the Mariana trench
«This study illustrates how little we really know about animals in the deep sea,» says lead author Janet Voight, Associate Curator of Invertebrates at The Field Museum in Chicago.
But when it comes to rarely - seen animals in the deep sea, those fundamental assessments are yet to be done.
Our research will contribute to the greater understanding of biodiversity, breadth, and evolution in the deep sea
«Where trash accumulates in the deep sea
Lots of animals differ in the parts of the color spectrum that they see best because of how they are tuned to their environments — whether they live in the deep sea or in caves, whether they mostly go out in the day or at night, or whether they're trying to pick up ultraviolet patterns on flowers or on prey.
MBARI researchers hope to do additional research to understand the long - term biological impacts of trash in the deep sea.
Now, a paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) shows that trash is also accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon.
That must give the fish a great advantage in the deep sea, where the ability to spot even the dimmest and briefest of lights can mean the difference between eating and being eaten.
Linse says she expects to find something similar to ecosystems found in the deep sea — a dark, extremely food - sparse environment with no plant life.
Either that it began in deep sea hydrothermal vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin's «warm little pond.»
Four new carnivorous sponge species have recently been discovered in the deep sea.
Historians once assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).
Amazing video footage of the snailfish, the first of a school of fish living in the deepest sea, was taken by the Hadal - Lander, a ROV with a titanium - encased high - resolution camera, in the Pacific's Japan Trench.
It was collected in the deep sea about 190 miles offshore Louisiana during a 2010 mission by the NOAA Ship Pisces to study sperm whale feeding.
Other foraminifera proved genetically identical to peers in the Arctic Ocean, suggesting a certain cosmopolitanism in these tiny creatures that have a globe - spanning range and can live in the deep sea wherever it may be found.
«In the deep sea they have sponges that almost look like fly - eating plants, with long radials that are extremely sticky and catch anything that comes through the water column,» she says.
The discovery of the Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field is just the latest example of how MBARI's extensive use of underwater robotics has accelerated the pace of scientific discovery in the deep sea.
Linse expects to find something similar to ecosystems found in the deep sea — a dark, extremely food - sparse environment that spawns odd creatures such as carnivorous sponges and bivalves.
The Pescadero Basin is only the second place in the world where carbonate chimneys (instead of ones made primarily of sulfides) have been found in the deep sea.
The scientists also found that the microbes were making quick work of many of the hydrocarbons in the deep sea plumes.
«The establishment of regional MPA networks in the deep sea could potentially benefit both mining and biodiversity interests by providing more economic certainty and ecosystem protection.»
However, with the continuous DOC supply from the surface oceans, concentrations in the deep sea are not increasing.
They say this is the first evidence of natural selection maintaining separate specialised types of the same species of fish, each adapting to different habitat depths within a single population spanning two kilometres of depth in the deep sea.
However, exploitation activities in the deep sea remain highly contentious, particularly regarding the potential risks and environmental impacts associated with such activities.
Some of this carbon then sinks to the bottom of the ocean when the phytoplankton die, locking it away in the deep sea for thousands of years.
Where possible, this should be done in a timeframe that will complement and keep track with industrial expansion in the deep sea.
The paper assesses these existing and emerging opportunities in the deep sea and identifies future deep - sea research priorities needed to address societal, environmental and governance challenges.
This fits with what the team see in the rate of sediment accumulation in the deep sea — large flood events transporting more sediment, and moving it further.
Not that deep and not that many of them,» says Janet Voight, associate curator of zoology at the Field Museum and an author of a new study on the octopuses published in Deep Sea Research Part I.
«Bioluminescence is quite common in the deep sea, and many fishes inhabiting this region exhibit complex, species - specific patterns of light - producing structures,» said John Sparks, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Ichthyology and one of the co-authors on the study.
This is only the third hydrothermal system of its type that has been sampled, yet millions of similar environments exist in the deep sea.
The paper also highlights the need to investigate alternatives such as recycling of rare earth elements that could minimize environmental impact in the deep sea and in turn help the Europe's transition to a circular economy.
They are particularly worried about acidification's impact in the deep sea, which could be hit hard by changes in pH.
«The comparison of lanternfishes and bristlemouths is ideal for studying speciation in the deep sea.
«This suggests to us that bioluminescent signaling may be critical to diversification of fishes in the deep sea
New fossil evidence suggests the first spark of life may have occurred in a hot spring on land rather than a hydrothermal vent in the deep sea.
Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents
And certainly not in the deep sea, where coral reefs, seamounts and rugged canyons that harbour diverse marine life are being destroyed as trawlers head for deeper waters.
The Exeter and Greenpeace research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place in the deep sea.
One outcome emphasised by experts is that if society continues on the current high emissions trajectory, cold water coral reefs, located in the deep sea, may be unsustainable and tropical coral reef erosion is likely to outpace reef building this century.
«This action is a complete turning point in potential protection of deep - sea bottom communities,» says marine biologist Les Watling of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu: «One can hope that this will lead to a global ban of bottom trawling in the deep sea, but I can't say I am optimistic on that point.
Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single - celled bacteria - like microorganisms.
This archaeon lives in deep sea vents near Japan, and survives by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide — both detected in Enceladus's atmosphere — while excreting methane.
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