Sentences with phrase «marine animals known»

They are the only marine animals known to live embedded in ice, and no one is sure how they survive.

In this study, the researchers began with a naturally occurring antimicrobial peptide called clavanin - A, which was originally isolated from a marine animal known as a tunicate.

Sea lilies resemble plants in their long stems and feathery «blossoms», but in fact they are a class of marine animal known as a «stalked crinoid.»

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Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

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On 22 November, the census updated its record of animals living between the depths of 200 metres and 5000 metres, bringing the number of known marine species living in darkness to 17,650.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

Litter is a problem in the marine environment as it can be mistaken for food and eaten by some animals or can entangle coral and fish — a process known as «ghost fishing.»

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Dr Webb added: «When we concentrate on those groups of animals and plants which are best known, and where estimates of extinction risk are likely to be most reliable, the difference between marine and non-marine species disappears.

In the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory raised bryozoans, also known as «moss animals,» in seawater tanks and exposed them to various levels of water temperature, food and acidity.

Soon after, more than 60 species of small Red Sea marine animals, known as foraminifera, also invaded the Mediterranean.

It includes about 175,000 tissue samples from roughly 145,000 unique animals and more than 60,000 samples of DNA representing virtually every known species of marine mammal and sea turtle.

It is well - known that our plastic trash poses a serious threat to marine animals, but we are still trying to understand why animals eat it.

The acquisition of skeletons, the advent of predation and the rise of complex ecosystems all occurred in what's known as the Cambrian explosion of marine animals.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

For instance, the Turkana basin has yielded fossils of a whale and stingray, marine animals that have been known to swim upriver.

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The method is best known from the world of marine mammal training where trainers need a way to communicate with large animals like dolphins and orcas who can not be controlled physically.

I want the world to know about all of the awesome heroes out there working to save animals and inspire others to do the same, whether it's helping put an end to puppy mills, boycotting animal attractions or fighting to save marine life from plastic pollution.

The team now knew that this was not the first time this animal had been in the care of The Marine Mammal Center.

Perhaps not the prettiest of animals (Darwin himself pronounced the marine iguana as, «hideous, stupid, and sluggish») they are evolutionary marvels that can only be found on the Galápagos Islands and are the only documented lizards that have gone through a process known as aquatic adaption.

At the moment we know exactly where to find pygmy seahorses, ornate ghost pipefish, stargazer, frogfish and more incredible marine life such as the flamboyant cuttlefish (that we named animal of the month in march) and the blue ringed octopus.

What we do know is that the record numbers of stranded marine mammals we've seen all year indicate there is an urgent need for more science to help us all better understand what's going on off the coast of California and how large - scale human impacts, such as overfishing and pollution, may be affecting the health of these animals and their ocean environment as well.

The human race is no more and the robots have taken over and formed machines in the shape of marine animals.

«Scientists knew that ocean acidification was eating away at the shells of marine animals, but the new study has found that rising acidity hindered marine sperm from swimming to and fertilising eggs in the ocean.»

The Queen Charlotte Straight is known globally for its important marine animal habitat.

In fact, William Brown, BOEM's chief environmental officer has recognized that offshore seismic survey technology has been used in the United States with «no known detrimental impact to marine animal populations or to commercial fishing.»

The realisation here is that we are going to lose many more marine plants and animals than we thought, unless the stress of conservation shifts to less - known animals and plants.

Knowing what we do of the importance of sharks to marine ecosystems, why do we pull them from the water at the rate of 73 million or more animals per year?

An animal trainer knows how to teach dogs, horses, or even marine animals to display certain behaviors or keep them from exhibiting others.