Sentences with phrase «plankton called»

To try to uncover that evidence, a new study led by researchers at the University of Southampton first looked at fossilized plankton called foraminifera.

It's caused by excess growth in the water of a colorless plankton called «psuedo - nitzchia».

By studying chemicals in long - dead, single - celled plankton called foraminifera, though, the team behind the new study was able to extend the climate record back 2.1 million years (prehistoric time line).

Scientists have peered into the eye - like structure of single - celled marine plankton called warnowiids and found it contains many of the components of a complex eye.

At both poles, organisms in decline are being replaced by plankton called flagellates.

Not exact matches

The Dino Sphere is an incredible, living object that's filled with thousands of non-toxic plankton organisms called Dinoflagellates.

She called it the splat - cam — for spatial plankton analysis technique.

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

According to Shimada, one pair of bones called hyomandibulae formed a massive oar - shaped lever to protrude and swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, in order to receive more plankton - rich water into its mouth, similar to the way many sharks open their mouth.

An international team of scientists have discovered two new plankton - eating fossil fish species of the genus called Rhinconichthys (Rink - O - nik - thees) from the oceans of the Cretaceous Period, about 92 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the planet.

These so - called Lagrangian coherent structures have been observed shaping other natural phenomena, including volcanic ash clouds and plankton blooms.

Out of the vast diversity of plankton in the oceans, the worst offenders are a few species of diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria, collectively called harmful algae.

Comblike structures called gill - rakers trap the plankton and funnel them into tiny gullets.

They make a toxin called domoic acid, which is consumed by other plankton that in turn become food for fish and other organisms.

Tiny plankton and bits of plastic commingle in this water sample taken in the vicinity of the so - called «Great Pacific Garbage Patch,» a large area in the North Pacific Ocean known for accumulations of plastic marine debris.

Plankton release a chemical called dimethyl sulphide into the atmosphere which helps cloud droplets form.

That doesn't bode well for sea creatures like oysters, corals and plankton that grow hard shells made of a chalky mineral called calcium carbonate.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

It feeds entirely on tiny animals called plankton, as do humpback whales.

The expedition, called Tara Oceans, has yielded about 1.5 million different plankton taxa, based on an initial preliminary analysis of samples.

Taketeru Tomita of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have looked at the mechanics of its jaw to find out whether it actively sucks plankton in, or just swims through clouds of them with its mouth open and hopes for the best — a technique called ram feeding.

Nearly all are part of a drifting community of organisms called plankton, a term derived from the Greek word for wanderer.

Instruments attached to the cable collected data on ocean currents as well as samples of tiny creatures called plankton.

Scientists of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel used so - called «indoor mesocosms» to mimic the future ocean in their laboratories: They transferred the natural plankton community from the Kiel Fjord into twelve 1400 - liter tanks and brought them to two different temperatures and two different carbon dioxide concentrations.

Scientists call every organism «plankton» that is not able to swim against ocean currents, but drifts with them.

There are also additional tours called Sunset Trip and Plankton Trip.

The six games that were spotlighted are: Call of Duty Ghosts, Angry Birds Trilogy, Angry Birds Star Wars, SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge, Wipeout Create and Crash and Skylanders SWAP Force.

Have you ever wondered why plankton sometimes converge together at the ocean surface, creating a so - called red tide?

To do this they built a swarm of grapefruit - sized robots called miniature autonomous underwater explorers, or M - AUEs, that mimic the way plankton drift through the ocean.

By stimulating a massive growth of plankton, called a bloom, Planktos claims to be able to draw millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into the deep oceans over the next year.

(The fact that plankton play a role in precipitation carbonates out of water is used to bolster the so - called Gaia hypothesis, the idea that life is an integral part of Earth's climate.