Sentences with phrase «urchin living»

The yellow mussels and pink sea urchins living around the fissures are unlike those creatures living around the better known vents in the Pacific.

The urchins live on the Pacific coast of North America, where they often experience upwellings of carbon - dioxide - rich water from the deep ocean.

Sea urchins live to be 200 years old, with no signs of decline.

Not exact matches

Scientific research has shown that both oxybenzone and octinoxate destroy coral by absorbing its nutrients, affecting coral - dependent marine life like sea urchins and algae.

Can't - miss unique offerings include live spiny sea urchin and scallops.

At Umi, Kiyokuni's exciting twists include live spiny sea urchin and scallops.

Squid Ink Conchiglie With Blue Crab and Sea Urchin Butter at Kindred, Davidson, NC In a year in which we ate a nearly comical amount of squid - ink pasta, no other lived up to chef Joe Kindred's miniature shells.

Usually those antagonists are thick Labour and Lib Dem urchins who's only experience of life outside politics is working for the local branch of their trade union.

Purple sea urchins also provide food for shorebirds and some mammals living along the coast.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

«Sea urchins, little tiny crabs, marine worms live down in there,» along with many other species, Gaylord said.

Yet some sea urchins can live for 200 years, and one bowhead whale is known to be 211 years old and still going strong.

It always hides in holes or nooks on the ocean floor and is associated with various urchins and sponges that live in rocky reefs.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

Maintenance of somatic tissue regeneration with age in short - and long - lived species of sea urchins.

But living healthy doesn't guarantee longevity either, a new study of sea urchins suggests.

«But what we found is that aging is not inevitable: sea urchins don't appear to age, even when they are short - lived.

They studied regenerative capacity in three species of sea urchins with long, intermediate and short life expectancies: the red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, one of the world's longest - lived organisms with a life expectancy of more than 100 years; the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, with a life expectancy of more than 50 years; and the variegated sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, with a life expectancy of only four years.

They found that although the variegated sea urchin, L. variegatus, has a much lower life expectancy in the wild than the other two species they studied, it displayed no evidence of a decline in regenerative capacity with age, which suggests that senescence may not be tied to a short life expectancy in the wild.

«These are the same precursors seen in biominerals from sea urchin and abalone, which are different organisms from completely different branches in the tree of life, so the fact that they used exactly the same mechanism to form their skeletons is really surprising,» Gilbert explains.

«A strict crystal meth diet also helps people shed unwanted pounds, hair and teeth and promotes the growth of healthy scabs and unclean fingernails,» continued the report which assessed the health of 1000 meth addicts and concluded that they had the rugged lean health of a 19th century street urchin with taut, tense muscles from constant alertness coupled with an immunity to most infections from living in their own filth for long periods at a time.

Mission Vao (pronounced / «mɪʃɪn «veo /) was a female Rutian Twi «lek who lived as a street urchin on... Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.

Valjean's life on the run from Javert is complicated by his adoption of Cosette, a sweet urchin whose prostitute mother (Anne Hathaway) was unable to take care of her.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

Consider stocking at least a few representatives from each of the following groups: Sponges — many types, shapes, sizes and colors Zoanthids — colonial anemones (some can be harmful to true corals) Anemones — short tentacle, long tentacle and carpet Corallimorphs — mushroom anemones, Ricordea, Discosoma and elephant - ear Cerianthids — tube - dwelling anemones Mollusks (with and without shell)-- sea slugs, sea hares, nudibranches, turbo snails and many types of living shells and clams Cephalopods — octopus and cuttlefish Worms — feather dusters Arthropods — crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp and lobsters Echinoderms — sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea stars (starfish), serpent stars and brittle stars.

In the meantime, marine divers are now collecting those miniature fish that they already knew about but never figured were worth anything: shrimp gobies (with their commensal shrimp), crabs that live in the spines of sea urchins, fish that live in the body cavity of sea cucumbers and jawfish and garden eels that live in the substrate.

Barkley Sound is home to whales, sea lions, bald eagles and a large variety and abundance of intertidal sea life including sea arches, sea urchins, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, and sea stars.

The inter-tidal life (sea stars, anemones, urchins, etc) is spectacular!

Sea kayaking Clayoquot Sound and the adjacent Pacific Rim National Park reveals miles of sandy beaches and fascinating tide communities composed of sea starts, sea urchins and other saltwater life.

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Grazing fish, algae, sponges, urchins, storms and mud in the water affect the living corals.

Maui Ocean Center Hawaiian Marine Life Hale Daily 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Have you ever wondered what a sea urchin skeleton looks like?

It is often the vacant shell of an urchin that is most visible (it bleaches white after death), rather than the living animal.

With a white sandy beach and pristine waters, enjoy a barbeque lunch and snorkeling experience, with a remarkable variety of colorful tropical fishes and other marine life such as corals, sea urchins, conch, lobsters and stingrays, to name a few.

We have many shellfish, starfish, sand dollars, sea urchins, corals and other marine life which we hope you will respect and appreciate in their natural habitat.

The day is approaching, maybe faster than he'd like, when he must ease his daughter into life off what he calls happy land, where smog - free colors are as vivid as a Van Gogh painting — the red Indian paintbrush, the sunny coreopsis flowers, the purple sea urchins.

Electrical fields, plus the shade and protection offered by the metal / limestone frame, attract a wide range of colonizing marine life including fish, crabs, clams, octopus, lobster, and sea urchins.

Exceptional growths of tan lettuce - leaf create shallow coral spurs at 10 ft. Reef urchins, red boring sponges, and many other kinds of organisms hide or live on these large elongated coral growths.

Warmer than usual water also is believed to have contributed to the collapse of the bull kelp forest off Sonoma and Mendocino counties, along with an explosion of purple urchins that have devoured remaining plant life.

Sea urchins, which remain half - hidden during the day, came to life to forage in the magic of night.

Bald eagles also flock here to feed, and the rock base is home to a collection of marine life, such as sea anemones, urchins and crabs.

She has mountains of knowledge about the surrounding sea life and you'll be able to spot animals like dolphins, sea urchins, sea slugs, starfish, and a variety of crabs.

There are a lot of sea urchins that sometimes wash up on the beach, bringing the sea life to you.

You will spend approximately 1 hour in the water diving down and bringing up sea life such as lobsters, octopus and sea urchins.

And in the Enchanted Kelp Forest, children can get their hands wet in the 40 foot long touch pool teeming with sea urchins, kelp crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.

Ashcan School (n) a group of early 20th - century American painters, who presented the commonplace and unglamorous realities of city life in images of athletes, boxers, immigrants, prostitutes, and street urchins.

· 1917: The Contemporary Art Society gave the first Paul Gauguin, Tahitians (circa 1891) to Tate, the first work by Gauguin to enter a UK public collection · 1928: The first Barbara Hepworth (Barbara Skeaping as she was known then) is purchased in 1928:, the Terracotta Goose — was purchased by Ernest Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society Pottery and Crafts Fund in 1928 from Beaux Arts for # 15 15s · 1933: Pablo Picasso, Flowers (1901) is gifted to Tate, it was the first work by Picasso to be acquired by Tate · 1946: The first work by Francis Bacon is purchased, Figure Study II, for # 175 and is donated to Kirklees Museums and Galleries in 1952 · 1950: Lucian Freud, Still Life with Squid and Sea Urchin (1949) is purchased in 1950 and gifted to Harris Museum in 1952.

The acidification of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails), echinoderms (urchins, seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..

Formed in craggy shoreline niches when the tide recedes, they team with alien - seeming life — bright sea stars, vibrant quivering anemones, exotic mottled sea urchins.

Marine life in the Caribbean has been badly hurt in recent decades by everything from an introduced pathogen that killed off reef - grooming sea urchins to more familiar insults like overfishing and impacts of tourism and coastal development.