Sentences with phrase «jellyfish which»

This fresh water lake is conveniently situated just a two minute walk from the shore and there you will find the beautiful red jellyfish which will not sting.

Swim carelessly through endless swarms of jellyfish which have evolved without stingers in this isolated lake in the South Pacific.

Me: There seems to be some debate on the internet about the jellyfish which is swimming around inside Michelle Monaghan.

The coast appears complete with whales, dolphins, kelp and jellyfish which still enjoy the freedom of as yet unpolluted waters.

My personal favourite is the jellyfish which glides elegantly across the face of the watch.

Not exact matches

While the watch comes with many traditional faces, I found it fun to try some of the more whimsical ones which include jellyfish, butterflies and the ever popular Mickey Mouse, who tells times with his hands and taps his foot every second.

Not injured myself, but in Hawaii many times I've been stung by a man - of - war [jellyfish] which hurt a lot.

Some facts are luminously obvious, but the rest of our experience is obscured in a deep, penumbral shadow with reference to which our intellectual faculty varies from that of a savage to that of a jellyfish.

As an egg ages, the white deteriorates, which is why some poached eggs go floppy, surrounded by jellyfish - like tendrils of whites.

If you've never taken apart a fresh aloe leaf before, its insides are made up of a clear, jellyfish - like material, which is where most of the healing magic is contained.

(Well, except for the part about being stung in multiple places, which is a total bummer but makes a good story in retrospect, right?!?!) We are feeling totally heartened that we are not the only ones who are jellyfish magnets!

It was suggested that Smalling was in hospital in Bali following a surfing accident, which may have been followed up by a jellyfish sting, so said The Sun.

«One of the sad consequences of turtles» love of jellyfish is that they mistakenly eat plastic litter — plastic bags, balloons from mass publicity releases, which quite simply block their gut and they eventually die.»

«Jellyfishes are ancient organisms, which use a primitive predation mechanism based on generating feeding currents to bring the prey into contact with their bodies,» Acuña explains.

After catching the jellyfish with pool - skimming nets, he and a group of other scientists would pin them down with a fork and spin them across a razor's edge to slice off the light - emitting photo - organs, which would fall into a bucket in a translucent linguini heap.

Through Cormier, Prasher learned about a species of jellyfish living in the cold waters of the North Pacific, Aequorea victoria, which emitted a green glow and was one of the most intensely bioluminescent creatures on the planet.

Researchers observed that the rate at which Cassiopea jellyfish pulsed their bell decreased by one - third at night, and the animals were much slower to respond to external stimuli such as food or movement during that time.

«The pain is instant,» says Joseph Burnett, a dermatologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, who is part of the school's Consortium of Jellyfish Stings, which tracks jellyfish injuries wJellyfish Stings, which tracks jellyfish injuries wjellyfish injuries worldwide.

With the assistance of Global Explorer, a ROV equipped with a high definition color video camera and digital still camera, the researchers were able to snap some of the first pictures of numerous species that are believed to be new to science, including this red medusa jellyfish, which belongs to the genus Atolla.

Despite its singular appearance, the man - of - war isn't a jellyfish; rather, it's a siphonophore, which is a colony of organisms that are dependent on each other for survival.

The target fragment binds to a gene switch in the DNA, which triggers the production of a colourful substance such as the protein that gives jellyfish a green glow under ultraviolet light, or proteins from bacteria that produce colour changes visible to the naked eye.

In the short term, with increasing temperatures as well as local human - made threats like coastal development, pollution, and over-fishing, the study found that corals — tiny animals related to jellyfish — would be over-run by seaweed which would, in effect, suffocate them.

They simply used the jellyfish gene, which is easily detected, to test whether inserting foreign genes into eggs (so - called germline gene alteration) can produce viable monkeys.

Comb jellies, jellyfish, sea sponges, and a few other creatures all were thought to lack an anus, which meant they had to eat and defecate through a single hole.

In Ireland and the UK, current best practices recommend using sea water and cold packs, which is not the correct action for treating these jellyfish stings as it induces significant increases in venom delivery, while rinsing with vinegar or Sting No More ® Spray did not.

The finding helps explain how jellyfish, some species of which are considered invasive species, have adapted to compete with other, more muscle - filled fish to take over an ecosystem and compete for resources.

The plants» sky - blue glow comes from a protein called aequorin which a type of jellyfish called Aequorea victoria manufactures naturally.

She also found many species of jellyfish and octopus, some of which she'd never seen in the oceans.

This is 10 metres longer than the tentacles of the famous Portuguese man - of - war — which in any case is not a true jellyfish but a hydrozoan.

According to this view, early sponges sit at the base of the animal tree of life, which then forks into four other groups: comb jellies, jellyfish, primitive multicellular animals called placazoa, and another group of early symmetrical animals that led to worms, insects, and ultimately us (bilaterians).

Ordinarily, jellyfish are born from eggs and grow into larvae, which morph into polyps before becoming free - swimming medusa.

«Jellyfish are made up of little more than goo and yet they've been turned to stone before they had any chance to rot: a mechanism which some scientists refer to as the «Medusa effect», named after the gorgon of Greek mythology who turned into stone anyone that laid eyes upon her.»

The name «lion's mane» comes from the jellyfish's tentacles, which come in shades between yellow and red.

«The embryos of living jellyfish usually develop into bizarre alien - like larvae which metamorphose into anemone - like adults before the final jellyfish (or «medusa») phase.

For animals that lack this bilateral symmetry — sponges, stinging jellyfish, anemones — the digestive system is more like a cul - de-sac, a fitting turn of phrase for what is essentially a bag into which food flows, gets digested and then must be expelled before more can be consumed.

This showed that the details of segmentation in the Pseudooides embryos to be nothing more than the folded edge of an opening, which developed into the rim of the cone - shaped skeleton that once housed the anemone - like stage in the life cycle of the ancient jellyfish.

In one example, jellyfish flex their bodies to manipulate zone of high and low pressure around them, which lets them move with a very low expenditure of energy.

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.

«As an example of the potential impact of our finding, you can think about the phyla Cnidaria, which contains all of the world's anemones, corals, and jellyfish,» said senior author Mercer R. Brugler, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an assistant professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY.

He started studying bioluminescence in 1961, which lead to the isolation of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from these jellyfish.

Fluorescent or glowing proteins, which are substantial to molecular biology today, were developed from research interest in the phenomenon of glowing marine organisms, such as Aequorea aequorea (a jellyfish) or Noctiluca scintillans (a dinoflagellate).

Comparing the coral's genome with its cnidarian relatives — jellyfish, sea anemones, and hydras — they found that corals emerged some 500 million years ago, which is 250 million years earlier than their earliest known fossil records.

American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen.

A fried egg jellyfish, which forms blooms in the Mediterranean, near Alicante, Spain.

«It's refreshing to see a thoughtful analysis of the «jellyfish bloom» phenomenon,» says David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

Scientists have posted jellyfish spotters on Irish Sea ferries to study a breed with a painful sting which could swarm along the Welsh coastline.

Because of the immortal jellyfish, which is biologically immortal by swapping between premature and mature stages repeatedly, why don't people then realize that its possible sexual maturation increases aging?

This had allowed jellyfish - like creatures called salps, which find it easier to feed on the small cells, to start to replace shrimp - like krill, on which whales depend for food.

This is why Roger Tsien thanked the jellyfish in his banquet speech at the official Nobel Prize Banquet Dinner on December 10th, 2008: «So my final thanks are to both the jellyfish and corals: long may they have intact habitats in which to shine!»