Sentences with phrase «urchin shell»

She's standing beside me while I type, showing me her «absolute favourites» and thanking me for having sourced a little chunk of sea urchin shell, because she'd «really been wanting some of that».

The grains here are tiny fragments of a baby sea urchin shell.

The set includes Herbivore Botanical's Coconut Milk Bath Soak, an air plant nestled carefully into a delicate sea urchin shell, a Paddywax Urban Concrete Amber & Smoke soy wax candle (mini matches included), and a spa - worthy natural sea sponge loofah.

Made up of upside - down sea urchin shells, the little planters look like graceful jellyfish floating in mid-air.

These white marine sea urchin taper candle holders are hand crafted from resin to look like real sea urchin shells.

Real sea urchin shells are so delicate they break very easily.

Use this authentic looking large white clam shell as a decorative piece on the serving table, filled with seashells, starfish, sea urchin shells, Christmas ornaments, and possibly a draping of fish netting.

Not exact matches

The restaurant also features sea urchin, crab, lobster, grilled steak, roasted chicken, sandwiches (po» boy, soft shell crab and fried clam) and — of course — oysters.

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.

The development of an elaborate crystalline skeleton within the transparent embryo of the sea urchin provides a model for the shaping of hard mineralized tissues such as shell and bone

When the compressed material was introduced into laboratory tanks, the spines of sea urchins and the shells of mollusks dissolved.

Other survivors of the Hangenberg event included sea urchins, sea lilies and shelled invertebrates called brachiopods.

Unlike typical crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite crystal with its own convoluted shape.

See urchin spines and mussel shells are made of calcite, because large quantities of calcium are available in water.

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).

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PS the urchin's shell earrings are amazing!

Discovered at a road cut on Route 377: fossilized oyster shells, sea urchins, sea biscuits, and a nice piece of petrified wood along the Brazos River.

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.

That's a unique adventure — with poles in hand and wearing reef shoes, we splashed ankle - deep in the sand, around small patches of reef, careful to avoid sea urchins as we looked for little fishies and shells.

Fig: 7 A shell of the Sea Pussy, Heart or Pincushion Urchin, 4» long.

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

Big Cat Green Island Cruises will supply you with an endless variety of colourful fish, turtles, giant clams, starfish, shells, anemones, eels, sponges, sea urchins and many more incredible marine creatures.

Tip: Watch out for sea urchins and broken oyster shells; Salt restaurant is great for coffee.

Burrowing urchins, conch shells, hermit crabs, clams and minute mysid shrimp offer excellent opportunities for macro photography.

On the other hand, some shelled organisms, including oysters, clams, sea urchins, corals, and calcareous plankton could be at risk if a more acid environment interferes with the calcification process.

Calcite - A calcium carbonate (limestone) mineral, used by shell - or skeleton - forming, calcifying organisms such as foraminifera, some macroalgae, lobsters, crabs, sea urchins and starfish.

This hinders the ability of organisms such as molluscs, sea urchins, coralline algae and cold - water corals to produce their calcified shells and skeletons, affecting their survival.

I have a hurricane lamp full of shells and urchins from my beach house area and other trips I've been on (Fiji, Vanuatu, Queensland) which remind me of the fun we had there and also provide some of the beach into my home.