Sentences with phrase «tiny sea snails»

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Before that, a barnacle is like a miniature lobster, a tiny part of the sea ecosystem, snack food for sea snails and starfish.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Immense rainbow parrot fish are wedged in the most improbably - tiny coral caverns Octopus, sea snails, lobsters and moray eels can be seen foraging.

While the brittle star's perks are notable, this is really a story about the mighty sea cucumber, who plays host to a whole tiny ecosystem of creatures, notes bioGraphic, «including clams that take up residence in cucumber throats, fish and crabs that colonize their anuses, and worms and snails that drink their bodily fluids.»

Pteropods — tiny swimming Arctic sea snails — have difficulty building their shells at CO2 levels very close to the present ones.

In 2014, NOAA News promoted another paper by Bednarsek about dissolving sea butterfly shells with the headlines, «NOAA - Led Researchers Discover Ocean Acidity Is Dissolving Shells Of Tiny Snails Off The U.S. West Coast.»