Sentences with phrase «of sea squirts»

That marine biologist Ernst Haeckel's drawings of sea squirts resemble antique Christmas ornaments, or that his jellyfish look like the balusters of a Louis Sullivan staircase, is more than coincidental.

They compared 146 genes in many chordates, including hagfish and lamprey (considered the most primitive vertebrates) and larvaceans, which are sea - faring relatives of sea squirts.

Not exact matches

Throw in the cooked chicken pieces to reheat and season everything to taste with sea salt, cracked black pepper, crushed red pepper and a few squirts of fresh lemon juice.

2 large chopped onions 2 — 4 teaspoons chopped fresh garlic olive oil 1 - 1 1/2 pounds ground beef 2 eggs 1/2 cup matzoh meal or bread crumbs 1 squirt of hot chili sauce to taste 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley Fresh chopped tarragon, basil, oregano, thyme and lots of mint or whatever you can find in the garden 2 teaspoons sea salt 2 teaspoons cumin 1/2 teaspoon cardamom 1/2 teaspoon allspice black pepper to taste 1 cup sundried tomatoes or oven roasted tomatoes Fresh parsley for garnish

Mash your avocados into a small bowl and squirt the juice of 1/2 a lime and a generous sprinkling of sea salt.

We were off to the aquarium, and along the way we passed a beautiful beach on top of a cliff (complete with hammocks), the biggest sea turtles I'd ever seen (right under my feet) and several tanks of baby turtles dashing about like Squirt from Finding Nemo, a large lagoon full of snorkelers, and a little man - made beach off the lagoon where tiny tots paddled about.

These colorful and soft sea critters promise unlimited fun squirting outside of the water and bubbling under the water.

The male sea firefly, a crustacean the size of a sesame seed, squirts out light that hangs as a bright dot in the water, then zips upward and squirts out another and another, leaving a string of hanging dots spaced out like smoke signals.

And it's an honest warning: the nudibranch incorporates chemicals from the skin of its primary prey, sea squirts, into a foul - tasting mucus that predators deplore.

Cyanide fishing, whereby divers crush cyanide tablets into plastic squirt bottles of sea water and puff the solution to stun and capture live coral reef fish, is widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia despite being illegal in most countries of the region.

A 2007 expedition revealed that sea squirts had taken over the area of the seafloor once shaded by Larsen A.

The sea squirts, he thinks, are recent colonizers from open water, but the sea cucumbers are probably remnants of the original ecosystem from before the collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf.

Even soil - living or flesh - eating bacteria, engineered viruses, weed extracts, microwaves, chemicals from Antarctic sea squirts and the immune cells of siblings have been recruited to destroy tumours.

Using the Dazl RRM domain, we searched for Dazl homologs in the genomes of acorn worm from Hemichordata (Saccoglossus kowalevskii), sea urchin from Echinodermata (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), lancelet from Cephalochordata (Branchiostoma floridae), and sea squirt from Tunicata (Ciona intestinalis).

Sea creatures called hagfish squirt out huge amounts of slime, made partly of mucus, to defend against predators.

Characteristics: relaxing drift dive with rock formations, plenty of soft corals and hard corals, clams, nudibranchs, feather stars, sea squirts, tropical fish

Sea cucumbers, which squirt when held (pictured, left); voracious sea stars, which push their stomachs out of their mouths to eat; tiny dinoflagellates that glow fluorescent when you churn the watSea cucumbers, which squirt when held (pictured, left); voracious sea stars, which push their stomachs out of their mouths to eat; tiny dinoflagellates that glow fluorescent when you churn the watsea stars, which push their stomachs out of their mouths to eat; tiny dinoflagellates that glow fluorescent when you churn the water.

As you drift north through the channel, the topography shifts from a gentle slope to steep wall, festooned with colourful soft corals, huge gorgonian sea fans, and sea squirts and tunicates in a multitude of sizes and shapes.

Sections of the reef are bedecked with thousands of yellow and white sea squirts, and, more usually for Komodo, tiny bright yellow sea cucumbers.

The walls field an incredible amount of colourful filter feeders, such as sea apples, sea squirts, tunicates and crinoids.

While waiting for a bite fishing for mackerel from a floating dock, I'd stick my head down close to the water and peer at the fascinating assemblage of small shrimp, sea squirts and other creatures growing on the immersed wood and floats.

Part of my professional research is on the blood cells of northern hemisphere sea squirts.

Glaciers Sizzle, Squirt Bubbles When Melting To Create Loudest Marine Environment; These Sounds Could Help To Measure Ice Melt By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of...

Maggie Whitson har lagt til det Englishe populærnavnet «a genus of colonial sea - squirts» til «Botryllus».

Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some sort of deep sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away, changing colors from white to purple.