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of eels in all strands of Christianity, and if possible its fellow Abrahamic faith traditions.
Not exact matches
When
eels stack thousands
of the organ plates
in a row, their bodies can produce much higher voltage electric fields.
Electric
eels stack thousands
of tiny cell plates together
in their tails to deal powerful electric shocks to their prey.
Speaking
of ugly, I leave you
in the capable hands
of Eels, performing Ugly Love off
of 2005's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations.
I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays
in particular and
eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book
of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle
of Barnabas, which
in verse 10:5 reads:
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A traditional unagi (
eel) bowl with broiled unagi served on top
of rice, and an egg quiche with slivers
of silken tofu and more
eel in the center.
Pioneered
in London by the People's Fridge
in Brixton (see Jellied
Eel issue 54), these are communal chillers where people and businesses can reduce waste by sharing surplus food with other members
of the local community.
The restaurant stocks a rotating cast
of supremely delicious tinned seafood items — lobster rillettes, baby
eels, pristine smoked sardines — many
of which they have to import directly from producers
in Europe.
On several
of the islands there are divers who enjoy going under at night, when flashlights offer a different, eerie world where
eels swim
in the open, lobsters stir sociably
in the sand and the eyes
of checkerboard shrimp wink red
in the edge
of light.
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Often compared to an old man muppet, these beautiful wolf
eels, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, have taken up residence
in an old wreck on the west coast
of Vancouver Island.
This image shows a hookjaw moray
eel, also called Bayer's moray, which skulks around reefs
in the waters
of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
That makes sense because when an
eel is mostly submerged, the majority
of the electricity dissipates
in the water.
An electric
eel zaps biologist Kenneth Catania with pulses
of electricity during a leap attack
in this slow - motion video.
This is Catania's latest study
in a body
of research analyzing the intricacies
of an electric
eel's behavior.
This new type
of power source is modeled after rows
of cells called electrocytes
in the electric organ that runs along an electric
eel's body.
In «Electric
eels provide a zap
of inspiration for a new kind
of power source» (SN: 1/20/18, p. 13), voltage was incorrectly described as a measure
of energy.
In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University
of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University
of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric
eel - inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of foot - long purple - gray
eels snaked
in every crack and crevice, prompting researchers to nickname Nafanua «
Eel City.»
Here, we demonstrate the potential
of time - resolved, femtosecond electron energy loss spectroscopy (
EELS) for mapping electronic structural changes
in the course
of nuclear motions.
Sky - high prices for juvenile American
eels have created conflict
in Maine between fishermen and fisheries biologists over the fate
of the species
Certainly, nothing as anatomically extreme has been observed before
in any mud
eel, and the researchers speculate that asymmetric
eels could be taking a leaf out
of the flatfish's book.
While sorting through a shipment
of fish trawled off the coast
of Guinea
in West Africa and sent to the American Museum
of Natural History
in New York, Christopher Martinez's attention was brought to a pair
of these
eels.
If the
eel lived
in air, the current could be as high as one ampere, turning the creature's body into the equivalent
of a 500 - volt battery.
But to shed more light on this, the growth
of these
eels would have to be studied
in captivity.
To understand how the
eel doubles its charge, try picturing the critter
in the shape
of a horseshoe magnet.
«You wouldn't voluntarily do it over and over again,» said Kenneth Catania, a professor
of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University
in Nashville, Tennessee, and author
of a new study about the electric
eels» shocking behavior.
Alewives swam back 2 million strong
in the first year, along with striped bass, American
eels, and eight other species
of fish once native to the Kennebec.
He said he hopes his new study might get other researchers wondering just what the electric
eel is capable
of hunting
in the wild.
Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray
eels, doubled the amount
of calcium
in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.
A new exhibition at the American Museum
of Natural History
in New York celebrates luminescent wildlife — and may introduce the first known biofluorescent
eel
And as they get higher out
of the water sort
of that alternative path back to the water around the
eel is essentially kind
of squeezed off
in a sense.
And he's the author
of a recent paper
in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences titled: «Leaping
Eels Electrify Threats Supporting Von Humboldt's Account
of a Battle with Horses.»
I mean electric
eels just
in my experience do not jump out
of the water.
And the convenient thing or the great thing about this behavior is
in the old days when people studied sort
of what the
eels is giving off they would take the
eel out
of the tank and put it on a table»cause it turns out they're air breathers.
In a remarkable case of convergent evolution, this sensory system has evolved separately in two groups of freshwater fish — the electric eels and knife fish of South America and the elephant snout fish and one closely related species in Afric
In a remarkable case
of convergent evolution, this sensory system has evolved separately
in two groups of freshwater fish — the electric eels and knife fish of South America and the elephant snout fish and one closely related species in Afric
in two groups
of freshwater fish — the electric
eels and knife fish
of South America and the elephant snout fish and one closely related species
in Afric
in Africa.
In other work, Limburg found that eels and blueback herring in the Hudson River, too, have all sorts of travel pattern
In other work, Limburg found that
eels and blueback herring
in the Hudson River, too, have all sorts of travel pattern
in the Hudson River, too, have all sorts
of travel patterns.
Another dozen closely related species
of eel are found
in the lake, but only
in these two are the pectoral fins shrivelled or missing altogether.
These expeditions revealed a zoo
of biofluorescent fishes — from both cartilaginous (e.g. sharks and rays) and bony (e.g.
eels and lizardfishes) lineages — especially among cryptically patterned, well - camouflaged species living
in coral reefs.
In total there are 15 closely related species of freshwater eels in Lake Tanganyika, each with its own distinct lifestyle — and their common ancestor probably arrived there at least 7 million years ago, when the lake first forme
In total there are 15 closely related species
of freshwater
eels in Lake Tanganyika, each with its own distinct lifestyle — and their common ancestor probably arrived there at least 7 million years ago, when the lake first forme
in Lake Tanganyika, each with its own distinct lifestyle — and their common ancestor probably arrived there at least 7 million years ago, when the lake first formed.
The research team, led by Professor
of Physics Dr. Seth Fraden
of Brandeis University, drew inspiration from the mesmerizing sinuous motion
of a swimming blue
eel and puzzlingly large gap between how natural systems move and the lack
of such coordinated and smooth movement
in artificial systems.
«Primitive mosasaurs were slender creatures that undulated their bodies like
eels,» says Johan Lindgren
of Lund University
in Sweden.
From left to right, polymer samples
of JG25
in contact with water (JG25), a solution with Hg2 + and fish samples (tuna, swordfish, conger
eel and panga).
Looking deeper, Fraden studied how a type
of neural network present
in the
eel, named the Central Pattern Generator, produces waves
of chemical pulses that propagate down the
eel's spine to rhythmically drive swimming muscles.
A naturalist's tale from 200 years ago
of eels jumping out
of a river
in the Amazon and attacking horses may be true — the behaviour has been caught on film
«You could compare it to doing experiments on butterflies and expecting them to behave like caterpillars,» says Caroline Durif, a scientist at Norway's Institute
of Marine Research, who was not involved
in the work but co-authored the 2013 study, which used adult
eels captured as they started their return migration to the Sargasso Sea.
Eels migrate twice
in their lifetime: once as four inch — long larvae from the Sargasso Sea to coastal waters and rivers
of Europe and Northern Africa, and again after maturing for a decade or more, when they return to the Sargasso to spawn and die.
Michael Hansen, a biologist at Aarhus University
in Denmark who was not involved
in the study, agrees the age
of the
eels is the largest potential source
of error, but says the results make sense biologically, which convinces him it was not a major issue.