Sentences with phrase «sea cucumbers»

They compared the numbers of sea cucumbers and other marine life present each season with available air pressure, temperature, and other climate data and found a striking correlation.

For those who love fresh fish, the village is a great spot to eat some bargain priced seafood as well as try some unusual dishes such as sea cucumber soup.

Plus, I'm convinced my introductory remarks on sea cucumbers are largely responsible for her sunny attitude toward us.

Around 70 sea cucumber species are traded internationally to be used in traditional luxury cuisines, and many are endangered.

A foot - long sea cucumber known as the deep - sea Spanish dancer.

Having seen no source of perspective in any photos, she had expected sea cucumbers to be only about six inches long.

But not to worry — other research has actually shown we can feed sea cucumbers from above.

This allowed them to track the behavior, numbers, and sizes of larger deep - sea animals such as sea cucumbers.

The space is ideally located close to the ocean along Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa's beach path and also features small live animals, like sea cucumbers, sea stars, hermit crabs and brine shrimp, allowing guests to see and learn about the variety of ocean creatures that can be found right out front of the resort.

[Éva Elizabeth Plagányi et al, Crop rotations in the sea: Increasing returns and reducing risk of collapse in sea cucumber fisheries]

Both times she was spotted playing in the shallow waters near shore with sea cucumber guts on her face, indicating that she had been exploring the area closely enough to scare the small invertebrates into expelling their insides in defense.

The giant California sea cucumber is a scavenger that prowls the sea floor.

Joey Fatone will voice the burping sea cucumber who poops out his intestines three times in the movie.

Rendezvous Cut is a wide sandy expanse dotted with pristine coral heads and frequented by furry sea cucumbers and giant queen conch.

It might be a nice pattern for nautical pajamas, but these tiny anchors are actually ossicles from sea cucumber skin.

By NIGEL SITWELL Unless you are an Asian gourmet it may be difficult to get excited about sea cucumbers.

Like many sea cucumbers, it can eviscerate itself when under attack or otherwise stressed.

Regulation of growth, intestinal microbiota, non-specific immune response and disease resistance of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka) in biofloc systems — Jinghua Chen — Fish & Shellfish Immunology

That could include some bizarre adaptations, including «sponges that are sticky and catch prey instead of filtering water; small bivalves / clams having changed to suck in tiny shrimps instead of filtering; polychaete worms feeding on others and detritus - eating sea cucumbers.»

EXEC3: We need a celebrity for this burping sea cucumber who poops out his intestines.

According to MIT's Technology review, a new material inspired by sea cucumbers «switches rapidly between rigid and flexible states.»

Low Isles is famous for it resident turtle population, soft coral gardens and giant clams, sea cucumbers not to forget the chance of fining Nemo.

(Store bought cupcakes would be another option too) chocolate covered pretzels, Vanilla Wafer clam shells, sea cucumber cream horns on a sea of blue Sixlets, and AH - Mazing Lo Mein Noodle corals rounded out the treats!

Already dead sea cucumbers from the seafloor have bobbed to the surface, which could be a sign of a developing dead zone as much as an indication of oil toxicity itself.

AN OCTOPUS with ear - like fins, a deep - sea worm that feasts on crude oil and a transparent sea cucumber (pictured).

Worms writhe in the goo, clams bask in the bacteria, herds of sea cucumbers dine on diatoms and sea stars scurry across the pitch black landscape.

For some reason, the population of Amperima rosea, a small pinkish sea cucumber in the North Atlantic, has skyrocketed.

The abyss of the North Atlantic is crawling with them: wiggly pale pink sea cucumbers, here, there, everywhere.

Two years ago, in a kind of crater off the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10,000 feet down, a team led by Myriam Sibuet of the French Research Institute for Ocean Exploitation, discovered a spectacular cold seep with a vast field of clams and mussels, blue shrimp, purple sea cucumbers, and six - foot - long tube worms growing in bushes next to mounds of gas hydrate.

In the foreground, scavenging sea cucumbers approach.

Many animals can shed limbs, tails or skin when under attack, a process called autotomy — and sea cucumbers simply take it further than most.

Strathmann and Jaeckle gave captive sea cucumbers two kinds of labelled food.

Or your seed sea cucumbers.

Models show that leaving sea cucumbers unharvested in some underwater zones for two years at a time stabilizes the overall population and actually increases yield for fishers.

Although sea cucumber overexploitation doesn't get the same attention as shark finning, these invertebrates are the second most valuable seafood export in the Pacific after tuna, according to lead author Hampus Eriksson of the international nonprofit research organization WorldFish.

Though I opted to focus on creatures found at greater depths in my last post, one of the creatures observed by the Deepsea Challenger expedition in the New Britain Trench at a relatively shallow 1000 meters was just such a swimming sea cucumber.

The water is clear, and as well as lots of reef fish, you may spot sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea stars, crabs and sting rays.

Make your way to the Ham Ninh Market to enjoy sea cucumber soup, tram mushroom, and boiled flower crab as well as medicinal drinks made with seaweed, ginseng, seahorse, and rice wine.

But very often while teaching PADI Open Water courses or diving with first time divers we get the full finger point and a shrug of the shoulders when passing by these strange sea cucumbers.

Sea cucumbers come in many different colors, shapes and sizes, some very plain and others that look like something out of an alien movie.

It is the most common sea cucumber oft the beaches of Ambergris Caye.

In the late afternoon, the water recedes and you can pick up clams and shells fresh for eating, even sea cucumbers.

Location: opposite White Beach, Station 1 Access: about 10 minutes by boat from white Beach Experience: all divers Depth: 7 - 18 meters Visibility: up to 25 meters Current: low - moderate Best months: November - May Characteristics: two dive sites fridays rock and fridays reef with many fish species, soft corals, hard corals, sea cucumbers good for photography while fishes are being fed

Blue sea stars and sea cucumbers litter the sandy bottom.

Night dive at Pink Beach — crazy colours and likely to see frogfish, slipper lobster, basket stars, sea cucumbers unique to the area.

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

Yellow Wall of Texas is one of the Komodo National Park's signature dive sites, so called because of the proliferation of robust sea cucumbers - they are all over the place and their bright yellow hue dominates the vista.

Over a millennium later, in 1998, divers searching for sea cucumbers uncovered the wreckage, a dazzling trove of more than 60,000 objects which has remade scholarship on topics ranging from ancient trade policy to the history of porcelain.