Sentences with phrase «tiny crustaceans»

Hungry humpbacks travel thousands of kilometers to feast on a rich buffet of tiny crustaceans called krill, researchers reported here this week at the biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy.

When a fish corpse reaches the bottom, every bit of flesh and bone is slowly scavenged by eel - like hagfish, starfish, and swarms of tiny crustaceans called amphipods.

Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus, an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi

However, the scientists from India's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) did not count on these phytoplankton being eaten by tiny crustacean zooplankton.

Here, we take a dive with Iliffe into the Crustacea cave system, hunting for tiny crustaceans that live nowhere else on Earth...

But Aegirocassis, like a smaller and much older species of anomalocaridid, described last year, was a filter feeder that sifted millimeter - sized creatures — possibly including tiny crustaceans or the larvae of other marine organisms — from the water as it swam.

Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.

And yet they feed almost exclusively on tiny crustaceans known as krill.

This bull kelp carried tiny crustaceans and other invertebrates 400 kilometers before landing on a beach in New Zealand.

Amidst a jungle gym of trunks and branches, they discover fruiting berry bushes, hanging fern gardens, dwarf oak trees — even tiny crustaceans.

Humans drink stagnant, dirty water with tiny crustaceans in it — and those crustaceans are often host to Guinea worm larvae.

Tiny crustaceans complete a massive daily vertical migration in the world's oceans.

They, in turn, feed tiny crustaceans called krill, which are eaten by whales, penguins and some fish.

• Robust structural colour is inspired by a tropical bird (Dec 2016) • Bacteria nanospheres may help camouflage tiny crustaceans (Nov 2016)

Harvested from one of the earth's cleanest oceans, Antarctic krill are tiny crustaceans loaded with omega - 3 fatty acids (namely, EPA and DHA) and the antioxidant astaxanthin, which acts as a built - in preservative, staving off free radicals and maintaining the oil's freshness.

Enter a species of tiny crustaceans called cyamids — dubbed whale lice — teeming on the whales» skin, where they nibble on callouses.

Krill oil is derived from tiny crustaceans called Antarctic krill.

Plankton include all the microscopic beings that drift on the upper layer of the oceans, including tiny crustaceans, squid, and mollusks.

They are regularly parasitized by tiny crustaceans called Ommatokoita elongata, which attach themselves to the sharks» eyes and severely damage them.

When the theory was tested in a 115 - square - mile area of the Southern Ocean, tiny crustacean zooplankton ate up all the phytoplankton.

In addition to eating mosquito larvae, mosquitofish prey on other insect larvae, amphibian larvae, and zooplankton such as Daphnia, tiny crustaceans that graze on algae in freshwater ecosystems.

But when gobbling up the tiny crustaceans near the surface, the whales tend to be lefties, launching themselves upward while performing a 360 - degree barrel roll to the left, researchers report in the Nov. 20 Current Biology.

Ostracods, tiny crustaceans that have been on the planet for nearly 500 million years, are an exception.

For instance, copepods, which are tiny crustaceans, tend to gather and feed at certain levels of salinity and temperature.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

But when gobbling up the tiny crustaceans near the surface, the whales tend to be lefties, launching themselves upward while performing a 360 - degree barrel roll to the left,...

Only a few known species live here: a variety of tiny crustaceans, a blind fish and an eel.

Now, clues to how animals adapt have emerged from the growth patterns of tiny crustaceans.

Patel zeroes in on the Hox genes of a tiny crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis, commonly known as a beach hopper.

Put a drop of seawater on a slide under a microscope and you will see: amoebas, tiny crustaceans, and plankton, many of which also sport shells.

Within the muck lies a forensic record of what fell, washed or otherwise settled onto the bottom of this lake: fungal spores, fragments of plants, ancient pollen, volcanic ash, the remains of tiny crustaceans — and maybe even DNA from the mammoths themselves, shed while wallowing in the water.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

But these tiny crustaceans have still had very successful lives on land, as there are now about 5,000 known species of pill bugs and sow bugs living just about anywhere from beaches to deserts.

When the researchers dissected the holdfasts, they found a tiny teeming ecosystem that included 10 species of marine invertebrates: two tiny crustaceans, a sea spider, six species of mollusks, and a sea star.

The dragon's bizarre snout sucks up tiny crustaceans and zooplankton for meals, while its leaflike protrusions provide clever camouflage — just the thing to escape the clutches of ocean predators.

The tiny crustacean's superpowers include «seeing» even though it's got no eyes, and living on even after being frozen alive in its icy cave habitat

Deep in the ice caves of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York state lives a tiny crustacean with unique abilities.

Copepods, the tiny crustaceans that dwarf seahorses eat, are highly sensitive to changes in the water around them.

«The more we study the club of this tiny crustacean, the more we realize its structure could improve so many things we use every day,» said David Kisailus, a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Science and the Winston Chung Endowed Chair of Energy Innovation at the UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering.

This was to make sure that none of the tiny crustaceans were changing their behavior just because they were too hungry.

Low levels of magnesium chloride — an alternative type of salt found in the commercial product Clear Lane — boost populations of amphipods, tiny crustaceans that feed on algae and serve as an important food source for fish.

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.

Bladderworts eat small bugs, such as one - eyed Cyclops, tiny crustaceans that live in the water.

Moreover, the tiny crustaceans are very sensitive to environmental changes and can thus be used to monitor water quality — for years, the genus Daphnia has served as a model organism in this regard.

These tiny crustaceans from the order Cladocera form the basis of the trophic pyramid and therefore play an important role in modern ecosystems.

Fluorescent green microplastic spheres as seen inside the intestine of a tiny crustacean, Mysis relicta, after it consumed zooplankton containing the spheres.

Krill are tiny crustaceans, a bit like shrimp but smaller, at just one to six centimeters long.

The gray whales make the trek to Alaska to the feeding grounds of the Bering Sea to feast on millions of tiny crustaceans — a delicacy in the gray whale world — before traveling south to the warmer temperatures for mating season.

, the company teamed up with the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in order to develop the perfect house for the tiny crustaceans.