Sentences with phrase «of voracious predators»

Rather than conduct experiments of voracious predators chasing and eating, or completely avoiding, prey, the scientists used evolving populations of digital organisms in a virtual world called Avida.

But in the long run, it is unclear if the Arctic ecosystem supports large populations of this voracious predator.

Not exact matches

Wood frog tadpoles aren't the only ones with a taste for blood — tadpoles of New Mexico spadefoot toads eat plants when they first hatch, but sometimes transform into voracious predators.

The Treptichnus burrows resemble those of modern priapulid, or «penis», worms — voracious predators that hunt in a remarkably similar way on modern sea floors.

In recent years, it seems that the number of jellyfish have been on the rise, fueling concerns that their voracious appetites for microscopic sea creatures might have a negative impact on the food web and that their density might alter how fish behave — young fish seek refuge among the jellies» tentacles, for example — and consequently hamper the ability of predators to catch these fish.

Prized by diners for its tasty white flesh, the yard - long lingcod is a voracious predator that ambushes other fish among the submerged rock pinnacles and kelp thickets of Prince William Sound.

Those come - hither clicks were not the love call of a female cicada but a con trick executed by a voracious predator in search of a meal.

New studies are giving ecologists some hope of controlling red lionfish, a voracious predator that has invaded the Atlantic.

As the Nile perch is a skilful predator, with a large mouth and a voracious appetite, it has previously been regarded by biologists as a classic example of an invasive species which can literally «eat up» the biodiversity of an ecosystem.

The first thing the team noticed was that the virus was a voracious predator of the anthrax bacterium, said Holly Ganz, a research scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center and first author on the paper.

One of the subjects they gently froze in time is the common green darner, a voracious and speedy predator whose wing veins serve as airfoils.

«Ocean predator» conjures up images of sharks and barracudas, but the voracious red lionfish is out - eating them all in the Caribbean — and Mother Nature appears unable to control its impact on local reef fish.

Dragonfly larvae are voracious predators of aquatic organisms and release kairomones — chemical signals released by predators following the digestion of prey — that permeate throughout the aquatic community.

Jeremy becomes the wingman tossed on the grenade of true love blossoming between John and Treasury Secretary William «The Next President» Cleary's (Christopher Walken) eldest daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams)-- the grenade in question being Cleary's younger daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher, effortlessly walking away with the film), some kind of nymphomaniac psycho who serves, Boomerang - like, as the counterpoint to Jeremy's voracious sexual predator.

His latest is Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a voracious sexual predator who lives in the dark cocoon of his stretch limo as it inches its way across Midtown to a barbershop that would be more at home in the bucolic small town of A History of Violence than in the metal canyons of Manhattan.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan («90210,» Slither), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis («The Final Destination», «Snakes On a Plane»), featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton («Superhero Movie»,» Last House on the Left»), Dustin Milligan («90210,» «Slither»), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore («Avatar»), Chris Zylka («The Amazing Spider Man») and Katharine McPhee («The House Bunny»).

They are voracious predators and hunt using a classic example of lie - in - wait or ambush so it is easy for divers to to come close and get a good shot of these formidable hunters.

In our particular study of the Italian lake, we show that a change in thermal stratification regime of the lake provided a refuge from fish predation from a voracious invertebrate predator called Bythotrephes.