Sentences with phrase «tiny creatures called»

Instruments attached to the cable collected data on ocean currents as well as samples of tiny creatures called plankton.

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These tiny living creatures (lactobacilli and yeast, collectively called the sourdough's microflora) generate byproducts that cause bread to rise and give it complex, rich flavor.

Inside of every mattress, pillow, box spring and bedding piece live tiny little creatures called dust mites.

Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish.

Another standard biostratigraphic method — linking the timing of different rock layers by the comings and goings of fossilized teeth of tiny eellike creatures called conodonts — also couldn't be used, because the same species didn't live in cool and tropical waters.

To identify the source of carbon during the PETM, the researchers studied the remains of tiny marine creatures called foraminifera, the shells of which shed light on the environmental conditions when they lived millions of years ago.

In recent years, a whole new field called geo - microbiology has sprung up precisely to study tiny creatures that are otherwise indistinguishable from rocks.

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

This tiny creature is called Daphnia magna.

A Yale team has looked to nature to help solve a design problem, using tiny fossilized creatures called diatoms to improve the light absorption of organic solar cells.

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