Sentences with phrase «long predator fish»
And an ever - present on night dives are hunting tarpon - a rather grumpy looking 3 - foot long predator fish, huge groupers and jacks.
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In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).
But intelligence does matter to the tropical fish, as big - brained guppies outwit predators to live longer than slower witted peers.
Fossils found in the Kem Kem have been unusually large: not just Spinosaurus, but also Carcharodontosaurus, a land - based predator nearly as big; crocodilian monsters as long as a school bus; and fish the size of a car.
As naturalists have long recognized, this tendency is cunningly exploited by reef fish, which evolved bold colored splotches that «break» their outlines and confuse predators seeking continuous contours.
Prized by diners for its tasty white flesh, the yard - long lingcod is a voracious predator that ambushes other fish among the submerged rock pinnacles and kelp thickets of Prince William Sound.
Long has used Tadros to study the evolution of backbones, testing the idea that by making ancient fish stiffer, backbones made them faster and hence better at collecting food or evading predators.
The significance of the photophores on the underside of mesopelagic fishes has long been thought to provide camouflage against predators swimming below, helping them to blend in with any residual light shining down from the surface.
A metre - long hunter fish that lived 423 million years ago was the first fish to be a top predator, suggesting that backboned animals like us come from China
He thinks they were ambush predators: their long necks and small heads may have let them sneak up to unsuspecting fish in murky waters.
Instead, blenny venom causes the victim's blood pressure to plunge by almost 40 % for a short time, which in the wild might slow down a would - be predator (like grouper fish) long enough for the tiny blenny to escape.
Because they are large, long - lived predators, tuna accumulate more mercury in their tissue than smaller, short - lived fish.
«When you're a centimeter long as a fish, anything is a predator,» Steve Simpson told Science News.
The named fish may contain more mercury than other species because they are long living fish and / or predators and can accumulate higher levels of mercury by eating other fish.
Each spring, flying fish arrive, shooting from the waves in long - distance leaps to avoid predators.