Sentences with phrase «large sea snails»

She was digging in the rocks and filling her pail with large sea snails.

Where Steinbeck and Ricketts had found large sea snails, Gilly's crew found only smaller or dead specimens.

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This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

Outside, the tea - colored ocean washed up carcasses of red abalone, large sea stars, and football - sized, snail - like chitons.

The researchers speculated that larger logs may provide food for a longer time period, which attracts more secondary colonizers, such as deep - sea snails.

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.

24th July 2015 — Tens of thousands of dead large black sea snails wash ashore on beaches in Florida, America.