Sentences with phrase «many other crustaceans»

Their fossilized droppings, or coprolites, contained tiny fragments of mollusk and other crustacean shells along with an abundance of rotten wood, researchers report September 21 in Scientific Reports.

Existing haemorrhage control devices comprise a syringe filled with small capsules of cellulose - based sponge, coated with chitosan, a natural agent derived from the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans that promotes blood clotting.

In 2016, he found the crabs» claws pinch with a force of up to 3300 newtons, stronger than any other crustacean and comparable to the bite force of a big predator like a lion.

Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that highly charged single - walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) coated with DNA and chitosan (a biomolecule derived from shrimp and other crustacean shells) are able to spontaneously penetrate into chloroplasts.

No other crustacean has this characteristic; it's usually seen only in insects.

Other crustaceans include shrimps, lobsters and crabs.

Although baleen whales are carnivores, filter - feeding on fish, krill, and other crustaceans, some of the microbes in their bellies look more like those of a vegetarian, microbiologists reported yesterday in Nature Communications.

Long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), for example, dive for food, including crabs and other crustaceans.

Other crustaceans, such as king crabs, tanner crabs and spiny lobsters, aggregate when feeding or during mating season or migration.

This significantly outmuscles all other crustaceans, including lobsters, which have claw strengths of only about 250 newtons.

Their aim is to find out how scallops as well as other crustaceans react to different environmental conditions in terms of their growth.

Then, in 1977, an exploratory dive in the Galapagos Rift discovered giant tube worms, clams, and other crustaceans that survived without any access to the Sun.

The Term Chelate: The term chelate was first applied in 1920 by Sir Gilbert T. Morgan and H. D. K. Drew, who stated: «The adjective chelate, derived from the great claw or chele (Greek) of the lobster or other crustaceans, is suggested for the caliperlike groups which function as two associating units and fasten to the central atom so as to produce heterocyclic rings.»

Prawns and other crustaceans also contain large quantities of two other key nutrients: Vitamin B12 and Omega - 3 fatty acids.

We are still exploring and have already found many seahorses, frogfish, ghost pipefish, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pipefish, a variety of shrimp and other crustaceans, saddleback anemonefish, long horned cowfish and much more.

Schools of manta rays, reef sharks and wobbegongs may grab the limelight, but the real beauty lies in the variety of colourful smaller creatures that you can see, such as nudibranchs, shrimps, crabs and other crustaceans, pipefish and seahorses.

On night dives you can run into squid, octopus and meaty lobsters and many other crustaceans.

Not exact matches

The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

Here, they add shrimp and crispy kale to dress it up, though other proteins may be substituted if you are short on the crustacean.

From crabcake sliders and crab dip to the Eastern Shore Mac & Cheese and Surf and Turf entrées, Greene Turtle prominently features this native crustacean to distinguish its menu from other chain seafood competitors.

These coloring pages are filled with seascapes, fish, corals, crustaceans, and plenty of other sea creatures from below.

Coprolites with crustaceans, on the other hand, are more likely to get fossilized — and that preferential preservation might make it appear that this behavior was more frequent than it actually was.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

UC Berkeley developmental biologist Nipam Patel uses Crispr - Cas9 to edit the genomes of butterflies, crustaceans and other animals to learn how an organism forms.

«As adept filter feeders and scavengers, crustaceans may not have been subjected to the same pressures as other arthropods to develop a predatory weapon - like venom,» he says.

They corresponded with each other, and we know that Steenstrup lent Darwin cirripedes — a family of small crustaceans.

«Now we know: there are mainly one - or two - year - old juvenile fish living directly below the ice, and these feed on, among other things, amphipod crustaceans.

During the dry season, and particularly during extended droughts, gator holes provide vital water for fish, insects, crustaceans, snakes, turtles, birds, and other animals in addition to the alligator itself.

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

Crustaceans belong to a larger group of animals, called the arthropods, which also includes insects, spiders and others.

This bull kelp carried tiny crustaceans and other invertebrates 400 kilometers before landing on a beach in New Zealand.

But the researchers think the cowlike microbes may have a functional role, digesting the carbohydrates in whales» diets, including a complex starch called chitin that makes up the shells and other body parts of crustaceans.

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

But most other octopuses eat more substantial prey such as fish and crustaceans, so it is a surprise to see this species grow so large on jellyfish (Scientific Reports, doi.org/b43h).

The worms are carnivorous, supping on crustaceans, mollusks and other worms.

Strausfeld and Wolff looked at both the neuroanatomy and chemical composition of mushroom bodies in numerous species belonging to two major groups of invertebrates: Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans and other arthropods such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs; and Lophotrochozoa, which includes mollusks, flatworms and segmented worms.

Adult perch can grow to weigh more than 440 pounds, and are fierce predators that feed on insects, crustaceans, and other fish — even those of its own species.

In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

Preliminary data obtained by the scientists for krill suggest that the figure for these small crustaceans will also lie close to those found for other species.

A similar analysis could be extended to other ancient bugs, trilobites (such as the one at right), and crustaceans.

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates — spiders, scorpions and their kin — branched off from the family tree of other arthropods — including insects, crustaceans and millipedes — more than half a billion years ago.

Locals and others suspected a toxic algal bloom (see here for image), or perhaps some sort of chemical release, or millions of microscopic «crustacean eggs».

«Our study suggests that a number of other Burgess Shale fossils such as Branchiocaris, Canadaspis and Odaraia form with Tokummia a group of crustacean - like arthropods that we can now place at the base of all mandibulates,» said Aria.

Some believe that insects evolved from an ancestor that gave rise to the malacostracans, a group of crustaceans that include crabs and shrimp, while others point to a lineage of less commonly known crustaceans called branchiopods, which include, for example, brine shrimp.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

In the Antarctic, tiny crustaceans called krill sustain the largest animal that has ever existed — the blue whale — as well as many other fish, bird, and mammal species.

In these tanks, bladderwrack and other algae, crustaceans and snails experience environmental conditions of the future.

The examination of other ecosystems has demonstrated the presence of BMAA in fish and crustaceans in the human food chain in Florida, Chesapeake Bay, France and Sweden [15 — 18].

But when you do see fresh shrimp, crab, crayfish, lobster, mussels, clams, and other shellfish and crustaceans at your local supermarket and you can afford to buy, you shouldn't miss the opportunity to have them on your next meal.