Sentences with phrase «shells than the sea»

After five days, sea butterflies living in normal water were better at building their shells than the sea butterflies living in the acidified water.

Not exact matches

With our sea shell dying project I found that they were much paler than the egg shells.
«I was like a boy playing on the sea - shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
And though they seem more rocklike than lifelike at first glance, at second glance they may begin to remind you of a limpet perhaps, or a mussel, or some other sea creature with a formidable hard outer shell, softer more vulnerable parts tucked inside, and zero mobility.
And then there are the colored shells from Cueva de los Aviones, a sea cave in southern Spain, where Hoffmann's uranium - thorium dating of a calcite crust covering the objects has just yielded an age of more than 115,000 years.
Most sea squirts are little more than rubbery blobs that stick to shells and rocks on the sea floor.
Early Earth also was hotter than today, the sea contained great amounts of dissolved silica due to a lack of planktonic organisms like today that use it for their shells.
The map is split into multiple themed areas rather than being one big, contiguous village now: you can drive your camper over to Breezy Hollow to shake some apple trees, then head down to the beach to collect sea shells and fish.
Families will also not want to miss the jet - propelled, gas - fuelled prehistoric nautilus, a primitive octopus in a spiral shell, the cuttlefish, a captivating type of mollusc which can change colour to give itself the perfect camouflage against any background, or the teeny tiny Atlantic Long Arm Octopus, a small sea creature with arms longer than its 90 millimetre body!
Every scientist, no matter in what speciality, should have the humility of Sir Isaac Newton when he said, «I was like a boy playing on the sea - shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
It is a green variant of a Seaslime with a copper - colored shell that appears more on land than at sea.
Recently, however, Hawaii has become something of a destination retail center, particularly for Japanese visitors seeking bargains rather than sea shells.
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