Sentences with phrase «tiny animals called»

The creatures that eat the tiny plants, including fish and tiny animals called zooplankton, have adapted to make the most of these blooms.

In a balanced ecosystem, tiny animals called zooplankton graze on phytoplankton.

It feeds entirely on tiny animals called plankton, as do humpback whales.

Not exact matches

Modern mysticetes have keratin fibers — called baleen — in place of teeth that allow them to trap and feed on tiny marine animals such as shrimp.

For the ocean's tiny grazing animals, the microscopic algae called diatoms are a favorite food — and like most delicacies, they are turning out to be hazardous.

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

In mammals, the inner ear contains tiny mineralized crystals called otoconia that help an animal stay upright.

Sharkskin is made up of tiny, platelike scales called dermal denticles, whose strength protects the animal and whose drag - reducing properties allow it to move quickly after prey.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

It's a canister smaller than a hockey puck loaded with little organisms — bacteria, plant seeds, even some tiny invertebrate animals called water bears.

For eons, bacteria have battled particularly tiny viruses called bacteriophages, or phages for short, which infect and kill bacteria but leave humans and other animals alone.

Symbion pandora, as they called the new creature, is a tiny animal with a complex body and a bizarre life cycle.

The findings are consistent with the idea, first proposed nearly 40 years ago, that animals have tiny magnetic particles of an iron - containing compound called magnetite in their bodies.

Stem cell technology has advanced so much that scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids, or mini-brains if you want to be cute about it — in the lab, but medical ethicists are concerned about recent developments in this field involving the growth of these tiny brains in other animals.

In the Antarctic, tiny crustaceans called krill sustain the largest animal that has ever existed — the blue whale — as well as many other fish, bird, and mammal species.

They swim with their mouths open, devouring algae, tiny aquatic animals called zooplankton and the eggs of other fish.

When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.

Without dedicated volunteers like Ellen and her daughter Sharon, and selfless associates who have devoted their professional lives to improving the lives of the hundreds of animals that call our Adoption Center home, Animal League America would have never sprouted from a tiny local shelter into the world's largest no - kill rescue and adoption organization.

We make farm calls and tiny animal house calls if needed.

Pet's Vet Calls is a mobile, flexible and professional tiny animal veterinary practice located in Burlington, Massachusetts that brings medical care and health services to your pet right in your own home.

PAWS Animal Shelter celebrates an artistic side in our entry room called «The Tiny Gallery.»

Glands in the animal's skin secrete tiny allergy - triggering proteins, called allergens, that linger in the animal's fur but also float easily in the air.