Sentences with phrase «including sea anemones»

Mollusks were followed by annelids (segmented worms), cnidarians (including sea anemones), bryozoans (moss animals that sometimes resemble coral), crustaceans and others.

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Genome sequencing confirms that myxozoans, a diverse group of microscopic parasites that infect invertebrate and vertebrate hosts, are actually are «highly reduced» cnidarians — the phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and sea anemones.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Most species were invertebrates, including snails, worms and sea anemones.

A variety of vertebrates and a handful of invertebrates, including octopuses and spiders — even a bacterium — are members of the personality club, but the researchers say sea anemones set a new bar as the animal with the simplest nervous system.

Caleb Finch, a geron - tologist at the University of Southern California, has assembled an impressive catalogue of living things that grow old without obvious deterioration, including 20 - kilogram lobsters, centenarian fish and veteran sea anemones.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

These factors combine to make seamounts fertile habitats for diverse communities of marine life, including sponges, crabs, sea anemones, commercially important fish, and deep - sea corals.

Barkley Sound is home to whales, sea lions, bald eagles and a large variety and abundance of intertidal sea life including sea arches, sea urchins, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, and sea stars.

Activities include diving among the colourful fish, sea anemones, reefs, rocks and wrecks.

Haystack Rock's tidepools are home to many intertidal animals, including sea stars, anemone, crabs, chitons, limpets and nudibranchs.

These pristine waters are home to many marine mammals including: Orca or killer whales, humpback whales, harbour seals, Dall's porpoise, pacific white - sided dolphins, steller sea lions, river otters and a large variety of invertebrate life, such as sea cucumbers, anemones and sea stars.

Marine invertebrates include sea stars, sea cucumbers, anemones, nudibranchs, etc..

In the Santa Barbara Channel, you can find over 30 marine mammal species including whales, dolphins, and elephant seals, as well as marine life ranging from tiny sea stars and anemones to blue whales (the largest animals in the world).

The tidal pools are home to many sea creatures including starfish, anemone, crabs and more.

There is a large variety such marine vegetation, particularly sea weed, and numerous organisms include abalone, anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, sculpin, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea palms, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, surf grass, tube worms, and whelks.

The marine life includes endless varieties of colorful fish, turtles, giant clams, shells, starfish and sea anemones.

The Belize Barrier Reef is home to thousands of colorful tropical species, including anemones, sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, snapper, dolphins and the largest fish species in the ocean, the whale shark.

Both hard and soft corals proliferate, supporting giant clams, anemones and sea cucumbers, while the rich diversity of fish life includes coral trout, butterflyfish, angelfish, fusiliers, chromis, clownfish and parrotfish as well as turtles and reef sharks.

Mexico's Nouvel Studio is bringing a roster of artists and designers including Guggisberg Baldwin, whose beautiful blown glass pieces entitled Loon resemble bubbly sea anemones.

Belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, hydra are part of a group of organisms known as cnidarians which include jellyfish and sea anemones.

They found that in busy coastal waters, the installation was a welcome oasis of calm for many undersea species, including mussels, anemones and crabs, which in turn attract feeding sea birds.

«The fragile, intricately — detailed, and colorful sea creatures on view — including anemones, octopi, sea stars, and even sea slugs — will illustrate the Blaschkas» still - unmatched expertise with glass as a medium, while also transporting audiences to a hidden world beneath the sea more than 100 years ago,» says Alexandra Ruggiero, the exhibition's co-curator and CMoG curatorial assistant.

The DNA analysis indicates that myxozoans belong to the phylum of cnidarians, which includes over 10,000 species like jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.