Sentences with phrase «tiny marine animals»

The fossils of tiny marine animals found in Canada this year may hold the key to how life evolved from microbes to humans.

Corals, often thought of as plant - like, are actually tiny marine animals.

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.

The crab covers its body with seaweed, sponges, and even tiny marine animals to better blend into its environment.

Her research deals with tiny marine animals called acoels that are at the crux of a number of important transitions in evolutionary history.

Tiny marine animals like zooplanktons persist to migrate vertically even during the cold winter months.

Most favorite diving spot is the Hole in the wall — where you descend 60 feet of illuminated water to reach the 1.5 m (4.9 ft.) wide hole, covered with colorful sponges, corals, crinoids and other tiny marine animals.

In the absence of sunlight, it is the moon that drives the vertical migrations of tiny marine animals.

Rickaby looked at the fossils of foraminifera, tiny marine animals that live just weeks and whose fossils carry a record of the temperatures they lived in.

Although adults of these tiny marine animals are typical, squishy invertebrates, their larval form looks more like that of vertebrates, and their genome holds key clues to the evolutionary changes that occurred at the transition between the two.

The organic matter in soils, sediments, and water may come from decomposed land plants, dead plankton (tiny marine animals and plants), or burned wood or fossil fuels, and it offers clues about Earth's past and present environments.