These delicate,
tiny creatures live on tropical coral reefs, adding their own splash of color and other - worldiness to an already rich and vibrant Eco-system.
A new mom is struggling to figure out how she'll get the chores done, feed the baby, soothe the baby, get a shower, breathe, cook, and fit everything else she used to do into her now controlled by
a tiny creature life.
Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous
tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.
Not exact matches
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.
New moms are not only adapting to
life with their
tiny babies, but also
life as milk - making machines and near - sleepless
creatures whose only value in
life often seems to be as a caregiver to their new darlings.
Inside of every mattress, pillow, box spring and bedding piece
live tiny little
creatures called dust mites.
The
tiny swimming larvae of these sea
creatures, also known as moss animals, may
live up to a week, long enough to settle in to a new habitat.
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.
Other foraminifera proved genetically identical to peers in the Arctic Ocean, suggesting a certain cosmopolitanism in these
tiny creatures that have a globe - spanning range and can
live in the deep sea wherever it may be found.
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.
Genetic analysis of these
tiny creatures, better known as water bears, is helping to unlock the mystery of how they can survive desiccation, and may also help to place them on the tree of
life.
Conodonts,
tiny eel - like
creatures that
lived from 520 million to 205 million years ago and were our earliest vertebrate relatives, have long been one of paleontology's great enigmas.
You can credit your existence to
tiny wormlike
creatures that
lived 500 million years ago, a new study suggests.
Although they are identified as such in
tiny type on the credits page, a casual reader would assume that these are pictures of
living creatures.
Symbion pandora, as they called the new
creature, is a
tiny animal with a complex body and a bizarre
life cycle.
The fossil, a shell fragment from a large individual of the genus Doedicurus, yielded enough genetic material to completely reconstruct DNA from the
creature's mitochondria, the
tiny energy factories found in each
living cell.
In 15 years he has led 170 expeditions and documented more than 500 previously unknown species of
creatures, including Microgale nasoloi, a
tiny hedgehog - like tenrec that feeds on insects and scurries about the forest floor; Heteroscorpion magnus, a giant scorpion that hides in rock crevices in the northeastern part of the island; and Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi, a
tiny, sparrowlike warbler that
lives high in the forest canopy.
Humans don't
live in isolation; we carry a fleet of micro-organisms everywhere we go, and these
tiny creatures outnumber our own cells about 10 to 1.
From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the
tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the
creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of
life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.
We're
tiny creatures, but we
live through dramas that seem to us to be massive.
These are
tiny, multicellular worm - like
creatures that
live in the soil and feed on fleas.
If you reward irresponsible breeders by giving them your money, you're just encouraging them to keep producing
tiny, fragile, short -
lived creatures.
She disregards birth fluids and puts mouth to mouth to save a gasping newborn, literally blowing
life into a
tiny, helpless
creature that may be the culmination of a lifetime of dreams.
Unlike the end - Cretaceous, the PETM was not a big extinction event but it generated enough environmental disruption to cause a high turnover of land animals, the evolution of ever smaller animals (the «Lilliput effect»), and a mass extinction of
tiny shell - making
creatures that
live on the sea bed (benthic foraminifera).
But I think fertilizing vast sterile ocean with iron and creating more food for ocean
life [and consequently more food from humans] is a better way to go - you using CO2 for a good purpose rather just storing somewhere - and storing CO2 in gas / ice form has some possibility being suddenly released some way, whereas CO2 in skeleton of
tiny creatures most likely ends up as limestone.
The implication of such research is that study of shorter -
lived,
tinier creatures may provide more information about adaptation and loss in the rapidly warming Arctic than, for instance, study of seals and polar bears.
What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of
tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant
life.