An analysis of its stomach showed that it obviously chased
smaller sea organisms and fed on them.
Not exact matches
2017 revealed some surprising biology of
organisms large and
small, from quick - dozing elephants to sex - changing lizards and carbon - dumping
sea creatures.
Brandt led a
small army of scientists on three expeditions to the Weddell
Sea in Antarctica, where they collected bottom - dwelling
organisms at 40 different locations, some in waters nearly four miles deep.
Most
sea sponges feed on single - celled
organisms, which they filter from water, but some are more voracious, catching
small crustaceans.
Crustaceans, mussels and predatory fish as well as many
smaller organisms that are important for the Baltic
Sea ecosystem thrive in submarine Fucus forests.
Those same sediments held another clue as well — the fossilized shells of plankton (
small floating
sea organisms) from the dinosaur days.