«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep
ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).
Not exact matches
Cross says that as the
oceans absorb
more carbon dioxide, the
more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine
life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.
But perhaps
more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their
life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the
ocean floor.
«If a person sees
life with
more acceptance of the waves of desire and sexual frequency flowing like waves on the
ocean, the better resilience and empathy one has throughout their
life for their own body and that of their partner or partners.»
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A Christian conservation charity has said the level of marine
life destruction in the world's
oceans...
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I see the church
more like the
ocean — beautiful, inviting, refreshing, teaming with
life, unpredictable, full of power and surprises, always changing and never able to be fully harnessed nor controlled.
A presence that disturbs... with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far
more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round
ocean and the
living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:..
Otherwise, it seems we BOHEMIANS are pretty close to agreement about having
more natural and loving
lives, which are even possible in McMansions and megachurches in the suburbs of our South (or at a university with a bizarre name in Malibu with a stunning view of the
ocean and fit California girls).
... I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far
more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round
ocean and the
living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.
Human male sperm and human female eggs are an - alogous to the millions of tons of inactive deuterium floating harmlessly in the
ocean but combine them in a fusion reaction, they instantly become the expanding energy of the Sun found in all stars as they continuously fuse
more hydrogen making the const - ituents of all human
life..
Drizzly rain, cloud cover,
more drizzle, and fog, especially where I
live close to the
ocean.
Regular programming such as
live music, chef tasting dinners, social hours and
more cement 41
Ocean's atmosphere of approachable sophistication.
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Ocean Spray is a vibrant agricultural cooperative owned by
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life for generations.
There are clues that these species may fare better than their stony counterparts after a disaster, but
more research needs to be done to understand how storms, warming waters and
ocean acidification can alter the composition of reefs and whether these changes are permanent or short -
lived, Lasker says.
«This gravity map hinting at a much larger
ocean is a
more favourable model for having some sort of
life in Enceladus's interior.»
Norris and colleagues review the Cenozoic history of oceanic change; despite some short -
lived past analogs, the
oceans will also experience
more rapid change than ever before.
Safely back on the surface, you can check them out in
more detail on a fact file database that runs video from the TV shows to display the bizarre and potent creatures that
live in the
ocean.
The goal is a better appreciation of the huge role that jellies play in the marine food web, as well as a
more complete inventory of how carbon (fundamental to both
life and climate) is distributed in the
ocean.
Now, researchers have exposed a
more accessible analog for extraterrestrial
life habitats: microscopic pockets of salt water in the Arctic
Ocean's winter ice.
Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline,
more than half of its population
living along the
ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.
More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open
ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes
living in the sea.
The seismic echoes of Jupiter's icy moons could teach us
more about their hidden
oceans than any picture — and help us gauge their potential for
life
Ocean life does not exist separately from land
life any
more than the Olympic Mountains are separate from the undersea volcanoes that spawned them.
Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of
Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that
live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the
more familiar shallow - water species.
«Both the physical
ocean and the
life within it are shifting much
more rapidly than our models predicted for the Arctic,» Alter notes, adding that temperatures there are rising twice as fast as everywhere else on the planet.
«What makes this discovery particularly noteworthy is that we mapped out a landscape of bioessential elements in the
ocean that was far
more perturbed than we expected, and the impacts on
life were big,» said Timothy W. Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry at UCR, Owens's former advisor and the principal investigator on the research project.
Atlantic fry drift thousands of kilometers across the
ocean to estuaries and rivers, where they can
live to the ripe old age of 50 years or
more.
«We need to do
more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only
lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic
Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.
A recent survey of microbial
life found that the
oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times
more unique species than scientists expected.
Around the Great Barrier Reef, warming
ocean waters are becoming
more acidic, bleaching the coral and threatening the rich community of
life drawn to the reefs.
Temperature - stressed corals will discharge their dinoflagellate partners, resulting in coral «bleaching,» but the organisms can also
live independently and may do so
more easily in an
ocean where CO2 is becoming
more readily available.
How will marine
life respond to
ocean waters that are growing ever
more acidic?
Tests of some fish species, which can race across the
ocean more quickly than slow - moving currents, have shown higher levels of radiation, although radiation levels in sea
life off the U.S. shore are still safe, Buesseler said.
To learn
more about the mysterious
lives of sea turtles, researchers attached tiny satellite trackers to young turtles and set them free in the open
ocean.
Many features of this new species appear similar to today's
ocean dolphins, yet the new fossil species is
more closely related to the
living Amazon River dolphin.
Next, he wrote a simple aqueous geochemistry model to calculate how much of these gases would have been dissolved in shallow lakes and reservoirs — environments that would have been
more conducive to concentrating
life - forming reactions, versus vast
oceans, where molecules could easily dissipate.
Small Dolly Varden will migrate out to the
ocean in early summer to eat even
more, trying to get big enough to stay in the river next season — and for the remainder of their
lives.
The other six, which may be covered in ice or
oceans, may have
more life - friendly atmospheres.
That translates into rivers and streams that rise and fall
more sharply and
more often, making
life harder for young salmon that hatch and spend their first few months in freshwater before migrating to the
ocean.
As scientists continue finding evidence for
life in the
ocean more than 3 billion years ago, those ancient fossils pose a paradox.
Many small, frozen worlds seem to have warm underground
oceans, making the search for alien
life more exciting — and
more confusing.
Some seafood choices are
more ocean - friendly than others, based on factors such as whether a species is abundant and whether it is fished or farmed in ways that harm other marine
life.
An ongoing, decadelong effort by scientists from
more than 80 countries to fathom the contents of the global
ocean will culminate next year in a definitive Census of Marine
Life.
Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create
more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke
life in rivers and
oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.
That is how he became
more famous for deciphering the human genome than the international army of scientists who shared the achievement, how he hopes to understand every microbe in the
ocean (through his Global Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial
ocean (through his Global
Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial
Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial
life.
Slightly
more than half of today's fish are «marine fish,» meaning they
live in
oceans.
At 8.05 a.m. local time, the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics in Jakarta issued a bulletin about a hypothetical tsunami — modelled on the one that hit Sumatra on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed
more than 200,000
lives — to national focal points around the Indian
Ocean.
This led to the formation of even
more microorganisms that ended their
lives on the
ocean floor — and so the process could start again.