Sentences with phrase «marine creatures in»

The enormous rock stands guard 235 feet above the beach and provides an essential home for nesting seabirds and a wide variety of other marine creatures in the tidal pools below, which you can reach on foot during low tide.

What makes the island special is the density and variety of marine creatures in such a small location.

The Island Explorer Tour is for those wanting to see the amazing coastline of Kangaroo Island with its secluded beaches, dolphins up close and at play, seabirds, seals and other marine creatures in their natural environment.

You can swim with dolphins up close and at play, migrating whales in season, seal colonies and marine creatures in their natural environment.

Find out all about one of the best - loved and most intelligent marine creatures in this edition's creature feature: Dolphins

You will undertake two guided dives to see the elusive South Autralian Leafy Sea Dragon and other marine creatures in the area.

Dive or snorkel among the brilliant corals and marine creatures in the turquoise waters of the Great Barrier Reef, bushwalk in the ancient World Heritage Listed Daintree forests or just relax and enjoy the best of Port Douglas and the Tropical North.

Volk: Yeah, yeah that's becoming more and more of a concern as people are realizing that there is not just the greenhouse effect of CO2 being a greenhouse gas and warming the Earth up, but there is a direct chemical effect of its dissolving in the ocean as carbonic acid, and this is going to affect many marine creatures in the coming decades.

They will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large, often Carboniferous Period forests, in the case of coal, or tiny marine creatures in the case of oil.

Not exact matches

The «touch me» exhibits most places offer give children a chance to experience sea creatures in a hands - on way that's not usually possible in the real world, and the colorful marine life and exhibits will delight kids.

Walking corals are already known to be in a symbiotic relationship with a different sea creature — flexible, marine peanut worms called sipunculids.

As humans put stress on the habitats of more complicated marine creatures, Robison explains, «jellies, because they are relatively simple, cheap to build, and can reproduce very quickly, can respond to negative impacts on other kinds of animals by rushing in to fill their niche.»

Marine biologist Ben Ruttenberg of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo scuba - dives to study fisheries and map out reefs, so he's seen plenty of sea creatures up close.

Marine creatures that live along the coast are used to dramatic swings in salinity, sedimentation, and other conditions, and studies have found populations can bounce back from extreme events.

Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.

«We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures,» says Ken Caldeira, a chemical oceanographer now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.

Wherever they go, they wreak havoc: the creatures suck in liters of water a day, depriving other indigenous marine animals of much - needed nutrients.

In today's oceans, larger - bodied marine animals are more likely to become extinct than smaller creatures, according to a Stanford - led report.

Possibilities include the creation of de facto marine reserves as fish cluster under the fields of floating turbines, loss of birds that fly into the turbines, entanglement of sea creatures in cables used to tether the turbines to the seafloor, and disruption of movement patterns of underwater animals.

James Witts said: «Most fossils are formed in marine environments, where it is easy for sediment to accumulate rapidly and bury parts of animals, such as bones, or bodies of creatures with a hard shell.

The reasons for this preliminary phase of die - offs aren't clear, the researchers report online today in Nature Communications, but they don't seem to include increased competition from other sorts of marine creatures.

Acorn worms are marine creatures that live on the ocean floor and feed by filtering a steady flow of sea water through slits in the region of their gut between mouth and esophagus.

Many researchers worry that acidification will make life harder for some shell - building marine organisms such as clams, crabs, and shrimp; more - acidic water could corrode the creatures» shells, or make it harder to build them in the first place.

The research, published in Endangered Species Research, sheds light on the true threat of plastic pollution to marine turtles, which, other research has shown, also eat plastic rubbish, and marine creatures caught up in it.

To see how acidification might affect one deepwater creature, marine biologist Taewon Kim and colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, used a robot submarine to vacuum up some deep - sea hermit crabs (Pagurus tanneri) that live off the coast of California at depths of 900 meters.

Ever since their discovery in the late 1970s, the creatures that dwell in the hot, sulfurous hydrothermal vents of the deep sea floor have captivated marine biologists.

Paint doped with a bacterial toxin that attacks barnacles only when the creatures infiltrate the paint could keep other marine life from being collateral damage in the fight to keep hulls smooth.

The researchers also found fish that swim upside down, marine worms that live in the icy melt, crustaceans called amphipods and a strange creature resembling a sea cucumber, which they nicknamed «the eggroll.»

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have spotted the equivalent of smoke - rings in the ocean which they think could «suck - up» small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean.

Roger is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole; his specialty is the study of cephalopods, a family of sea creatures that include octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes.

The creatures are in the care of a professional aquarist and a marine biologist assisted by a local vet.

In it the fantastic and unusual marine creatures have been treated as still life objects by American photographer Mark Laita.

In the year since the centre opened, 200 000 visitors have flocked to see marine creatures of all shapes and sizes living in recreated natural habitats, including rock pools, waterfalls, wave - lapped shallows and deep - water tanks reaching from floor to ceilinIn the year since the centre opened, 200 000 visitors have flocked to see marine creatures of all shapes and sizes living in recreated natural habitats, including rock pools, waterfalls, wave - lapped shallows and deep - water tanks reaching from floor to ceilinin recreated natural habitats, including rock pools, waterfalls, wave - lapped shallows and deep - water tanks reaching from floor to ceiling.

Marine reptiles were among the best - understood extinct creatures of the first half of the 19th century and played a major role in the intellectual debate nurturing Darwin's theory of evolution.

University of California, Berkeley, scientists report in Marine Biology that during many weeks of observing the cephalopod in reefs near Indonesia, the creatures engaged in everything from «cross-dressing» to strangulation during courtship and mating.

«While the changing seascape has dramatically altered and increased the diversity and number of small creatures at the base of the marine food web, we still don't know how these changes in the ecosystem will propagate through the entire chain.

The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest.

Creatures that live on the seafloor play vital roles in marine ecosystems, but human - made noise can alter their behaviors.

Named Pachycostasaurus dawni — meaning thick - ribbed lizard of Dawn, in honor of its discoverer — the creature in most ways resembles extinct marine predators called plesiosaurs.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

Take bryostatins, a family of 20 natural products first isolated in 1976 from spongelike marine creatures called bryozoans.

Disney starlet Jenna Ortega, «Actor & Ocean Life Enthusiast,» touts Pixar's dedication to verisimilitude on a tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in an untitled 3 - minute piece (indeed, we see that the interiors of the place were faithfully recreated along with the marine animals), while «Creature Features» (3 mins.)

Punching up the plot, Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg) is on hand as a marine biologist assigned to study the creature's physiognomy for use in the space race against the Soviet Union.

One project involves running a tour in which elementary school students visit a touch tank of starfish, sea cucumbers, and other marine creatures and watch an ecology - themed puppet show.

Start your holiday fun by visiting the People's Park at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, visit Fun World where kids will be entertained for hours on end, take a splash around the uShaka Marine World where you'll be treated to spectacular sea creatures of all kinds fun for both the young and old for something old world take a trip on the Umgeni Steam Train which travels through the wondrous Valley of a 1000 Hills.

Land hermit crabs (as opposed to marine hermits, a totally different group of creatures) are in fact as wedded to the sea as their aquatic cousins.

He took us out in the boat to the first spot to see the coral on the Caye Caulker Marine Reserve and gave us a guided tour, pointing out all kinds of creatures as he went.

Other discoveries include one of the largest cave rooms in the world, more river channels, rock formations, bats and other marine creatures.

The stings of those little marine creatures can be deadly in a worst case scenario, but a stinger suit keeps you safe.

In partnership with the Shark Research group at Mote Marine Laboratory, Georgia Aquarium staff will study the population size, make - up and movements near Sarasota, to build vital knowledge about these poorly understood but beautiful creatures.