Sentences with word «seastar»

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnaces, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

In one corner is the giant California sea cucumber, a formidable organism at half a metre long; in the other is the sunflower seastar.

The seashores and seastars dress and the wood nymph!

Have a look at the big sea seastar..

Meet the local octopus, wolf eels, seals, giant seastars and unique marine life.

That said, the creatures we do know of are some of the weirdest and most wonderful around; case in point, this beautiful firebrick seastar (Asterodiscides truncatus) photographed in Australia by John Turnbull.

I love how you added the string of seastars; they totally pop against the dark stain.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnacles, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

It squirts its digestive system out of its anus in a tangled, sticky mess, confusing the seastar and allowing it to get away.

Dive in the beautiful emerald waters of the Pacific Ocean and discover the abundance of local marine life including octopus, seals, seastars, anemones, king crabs and so much more!

And a feather star, which most people don't realise is another seastar with its mouth on the top, and a lot more arms to feed itself.

Magic Oceans House Reef is a macro paradise with Helgardas, Nembrothas, and other nudibranchs, plus seastars and featherstars amongst pristine corals.

The acidification of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails), echinoderms (urchins, seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..

Less commonly, sometimes an organism is found that has clearly been harassed and moved (e.g., a seastar rolled in a ball on the beach).

Many animals, such as limpets, chitons, barnacles, mussels, seastars, and urchins are attached directly to rocks (permanently or temporarily) and using force to remove them would be harmful to them.