Sentences with phrase «on jellyfish»

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Another issue these turtles face is the plastics in the oceans, since they subsist almost entirely on jellyfish, they often mistake plastic bags, balloons and other plastics for their food.

Let your audience know that Suzy feels the need to talk to an expert on jellyfish; then read the chapter titled «Expert # 1.»

Then, allow them to neatly write their final draft on the jellyfish theme paper.

They feed on jellyfish and plankton and are curious of humans, as seen in the photo.

Sometimes the simplest mechanisms are the most difficult to reproduce, said Janna Nawroth, a graduate student in the lab of Caltech engineering professor John Dabiri, who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship for his research on jellyfish.

«At the time, there was limited research on jellyfish,» says Condon, «along with less awareness of global - scale environmental problems, and less information transmitted around the world quickly.

However, a lack of historical data on jellyfish populations has caused some scientists to question whether the apparent boom is actually connected to global warming.

«I suspect that in the fullness of time these other systems may indeed reveal species that feed on jellyfish,» Gibbons says.

«We've been working on jellyfish for 10 years now,» Dabiri says, «and we're still just scratching the surface of all they have to teach us.»

But most other octopuses eat more substantial prey such as fish and crustaceans, so it is a surprise to see this species grow so large on jellyfish (Scientific Reports, doi.org/b43h).

The team focused their study on the jellyfish's juvenile, or ephyra, stage, because the ephyra's simple body plan — a disk - shaped body with eight symmetrical arms — would make any tissue regeneration clearly visible.

Abrams works on jellyfish, and he suggested that one of these creatures would be a suitable model organism, because jellies have neurons but no central nervous system.

Not exact matches

It'll be like watching «Survivor» gone wrong — where some poor tribe members are stung by jellyfish, fall into fires, or step on stingrays...

(shark, jellyfish, man, on and on)

Any ranking based on this would put humans higher and jellyfish lower in a hierarchy.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

There were tears (my own), jellyfish (that Jimmy thought were seals), seals (that Jimmy thought were rocks) and enough Haribo to bring on type 2 diabetes.

However, on the rougher days, the jellyfish were plentiful so we avoided the beach those days.

My friend's son had a nasty jellyfish sting on his leg from swimming in the ocean.

Both of my children were stung by jellyfish in Negril, Jamaica, and (I would never have believed it had I not seen it) a little crab pinched my daughter's toe in Florida and hung on for dear life.

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Leaders gathered Friday morning to announce that work has officially begun on a new jellyfish display at the Niagara Falls attraction.

Jellyfishes rely on drifting to eat.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

The octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, was filmed swimming docked on top of a medusa jellyfish, with its beak devouring its innards, while the medusa's sticky tentacles were still hanging out of its mouth.

«Jellyfishes are ancient organisms, which use a primitive predation mechanism based on generating feeding currents to bring the prey into contact with their bodies,» Acuña explains.

At first, they were extremely simple, resembling today's sponges or jellyfish, but Earth was on its way from being, for eons, a planet less than hospitable to complex life to becoming one bursting with it.

Through Cormier, Prasher learned about a species of jellyfish living in the cold waters of the North Pacific, Aequorea victoria, which emitted a green glow and was one of the most intensely bioluminescent creatures on the planet.

Scientists spotted this flashy jellyfish during a dive on April 24 at a depth of over 12,000 feet.

«There's a long history of jellyfish really coming into huge numbers, big blooms, with a big effect on ecology, when you have perturbations to the system.»

The team used the jellyfish's preference for sitting on solid surfaces to test whether quiescent Cassiopea had a delayed response to external stimuli.

Nicknamed the upside - down jellyfish because of its habit of sitting on the sea floor on its bell, with its tentacles waving upwards, Cassiopea rarely moves on its own.

[But] it depends on what jellyfish gets you,» notes Christopher Holstege, a toxicologist and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia.

The answer to the question of whether jellyfish populations are on the rise ultimately lies at this intersection, Berwald finds.

Despite its singular appearance, the man - of - war isn't a jellyfish; rather, it's a siphonophore, which is a colony of organisms that are dependent on each other for survival.

The Atlantic invader, Mnemiopsis leidyi, may soon get its comeuppance, however, as yet another exotic jellyfish has arrived — and it feasts on M. leidyi.

It will deploy grippers inspired by jellyfish to embrace the target before steering itself on a suicide dive into Earth's atmosphere.

In the Gulf of Mexico, a foreign jellyfish produced a huge bloom off Alabama's coastline last summer, reported Monty Graham of the state's Sea Lab on Dauphin Island.

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.

On the flip side, notes Mills, some jellyfish have disappeared with little notice from polluted coastal waters.

The root fluoresces green when the TCSn gene associated with cytokinin activation is turned on because it is fused with a jellyfish protein that acts as a reporter signal.

This gene is associated with cytokinin responses within the plant cells and is fused with a jellyfish protein that glows green when turned on.

Jellyfish probably make up the second - largest biomass on Earth, and we haven't even looked at them.

Prior to this period, most animal life on Earth consisted of enigmatic soft - bodied creatures that resembled algae or jellyfish.

Now that we have shown that vinegar and hot water work on these three jellyfish species, it will be much easier to standardise and simplify first aid for jellyfish stings where many different types of jellyfish occur.»

The results mirror a recent NUI Galway and University of Hawaii study on stings from the Portuguese man o war and previous work on box jellyfish stings.

«Therefore when developing first aid treatment for a jellyfish sting it is very important to test different treatments on these very different types of jellyfish.

Here's one munching on the tentacles of a glowing jellyfish in the Great Barrier Reef.

Reliant on the algae for food via photosynthesis, the jellyfish make a daily migration across the lake, following the arc of the sun.