Sentences with phrase «studying sea snails»

As a brain scientist, Dr. Kandel has functioned in a similar way, by studying sea snails — a simpler life form — to better understand the human brain.

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The researchers studied one kind of pteropod, common planktonic snails known as sea butterflies for the winglike body parts that help them glide through the water.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

A researcher at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) is studying the ancient Japanese culture of «ama» — women who traditionally free - dive in the sea in search of seaweed, lobsters, snail «turbo» shells and, in the distant past, pearls — and its potential connections to Philippine maritime cultures.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.