Sentences with phrase «urchins in»

Populations of parrotfish are a critical component of that herbivory, particularly since the decline of Diadema sea urchins in the early 1980s; the main causes of mortality of parrotfish are the use of fishing techniques such as spearfishing and, particularly, the use of fish traps....

Over the past four decades, he has traveled widely in order to photograph street urchins in Colombia, protesters in California and even coal miners in China.

His own favorite photograph was of two young street urchins in the Glasgow slum called the Gorbals, as he identified with their defiant exuberance.

There are patches of sea urchins in the shallows, so look out for black spiky clusters.

Touch sharks in the shark pool and sea urchins in the touch tank.

BEACHCOMBERS TIP: When snorkeling in front of the town, be sure to look for the following two urchins in the Thalassia.

Here, too, the shoreline is full of large cobbles and urchins in front of the surf break.

While the higher levels of acidity predicted under future climate scenarios decreased their overall growth, this was counteracted by Read more about Sea urchins in a climate conundrum - Scimex

To find out, this evolutionary biologist, then at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., raised purple sea urchins in her lab.

Sea urchins in particular satisfy a special niche in the otters» diet as a high - energy food source, and there were fewer to go around at Big Sur.

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.

If other things are against it, other things must go down... With the red hair of one she - urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.

She paddles around the kelp floating at the surface, looking intently into the water, and then suddenly ducks her head in, emerging with a green urchin in her beak, which she takes to shore, breaks open and eats.

Not exact matches

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Lupa Osteria Romana: Dine on raw fluke with lemon and Aleppo pepper; crispy octopus with green faro and Swiss chard; shellfish stew with eels, lobster and clams; baccala ravioli with marjoram; dried pasta with crab and sea urchin; sea scallops with cauliflower, fennel and citrus; and turbot cooked in parchment with black truffles; plus dessert.

When the students of Hogwarts start a new term, they indulge in the Great Feast, a legendary smorgasbord of everything a young British street urchin could dream of.

For example, in his dish Butternut squash carpaccio, uni, yuzu, Chef Bennet points out that while Uni is a natural source of sodium, the urchin also contains a large amount of potassium which helps offset the negative effects of the sodium in the seafood.

The space, feel, and comforting dishes — smoked herring tart and sea urchin custard — are, in a word, nurturing.

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 shellIn a year in which we ate a nearly comical amount of squid - ink pasta, no other lived up to chef Joe Kindred's miniature shellin which we ate a nearly comical amount of squid - ink pasta, no other lived up to chef Joe Kindred's miniature shells.

Cradled safely in Lara's borrowed glove, the ball made the urchins of El Paso lords of all Texas.

Then it all starts to fall apart, as no more money is spent, with the club starting to sound like a poor urchin that just can not keep up with the big boys, injury problems start to mount and make the squad look even more in need of help and then an opening day defeat leaves everyone suddenly talking about crisis.

In this respect, he was following on from Zico, who was almost turned away by Flamengo as a scrawny street urchin standing at just 4» 9».

Though, the Oyo State government during the first term of Governor Abiola Ajimobi declared his zero tolerance to all acts that may hinder free flow of traffic in Ibadan, especially begging and street trading, but a visit to the above named areas had shown that beggars of all categories and street urchins have taken over larger part of the areas.

Chairman, Nigeria Association of Social Workers (NASOW), Oyo State chapter, Barrister Tayo Ayoade in a reply to a message sent to him by DAILY POST, disclosed that the menace of street begging, street urchins and other social vices was a reflection of the country's social security policy and scheme.

«We express confidence in the ability of INEC to conduct free and fair election in Anambra, but find it nauseating when some political desperadoes and urchins arrogate to themselves powers they do not have.

Many people are having a go — from a woman who works at a fish market by day and cultures sea urchin meat by night, to high - school students culturing shellfish in their refrigerators.

In their absence, the urchin population has bloomed, and with it, their appetite for algae.

The visual systems of sea urchins, mantis shrimp and other creatures are broadening scientists» understanding of what qualifies as an eye, Susan Milius reported in «Strange visions» (SN: 5/28/16, p. 22).

That is a clue to anyone who studies the distribution of organisms on Earth that there might be something different going on there,» says Rich Mooi, the Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology at the Academy and a specialist in sea urchins who took part in the expedition.

While it isn't uncommon to find sea urchins attached to elevated rocks in an attempt to snap food from ocean currents, NOAA scientists aren't quite sure why so many have chosen to gather here.

Scientists from Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center confirmed the presence of dozens of species native to Japanese coastal waters — including barnacles, starfish, urchins, anemones, amphipods, worms, mussels, limpets, snails, solitary tunicates and algae — that were on a large floating dock in Japan that washed ashore at Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon in June 2012.

After a year, they dissected the urchins and explored their digestive tracts, discovering the dug - out sediment in the animals» guts.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

In a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory settinIn a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory settinin PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory setting.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

These are biomineral crystals found in a sea urchin tooth.

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

FOSSILISED sea urchins have been found embedded in the walls of medieval churches, embellished with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even shaped into Palaeolithic hand - axes.

Sea otters off the Alaskan coast play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems: By dining on sea urchins, the animals help preserve kelp forests that feed a range of species, from barnacles to bald eagles.

In 1914 Boveri observed that sea urchin embryos with abnormal amounts of chromosomal material, a condition called aneuploidy, looked cancerous.

The scientists documented almost 100 percent mortality of purple sea urchins and six - armed sea stars over the study area, which stretched from southern Mendocino County to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County.

In August 2011, scientists at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory walked into their labs to a strange, disturbing sight: Thousands of purple sea urchins and other marine invertebrates were dead in their tanks, which are fed directly by seawateIn August 2011, scientists at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory walked into their labs to a strange, disturbing sight: Thousands of purple sea urchins and other marine invertebrates were dead in their tanks, which are fed directly by seawatein their tanks, which are fed directly by seawater.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

Intertidal zones that once looked like pools of purple held only burrows in the bedrock — telltale markers that purple sea urchins were once there.

Immunologist Jonathan Rast of University of Toronto in Canada initially noticed hints of a Rag1 - like gene in the data produced by scientists sequencing the sea urchin's genome.

Although the function of these sea urchin genes is not yet known, their proteins form complexes in a manner similar to RAG1 and RAG2, says Fugmann.

The discovery of apparent Rag1 and Rag2 genes in the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratas)-- an invertebrate — promises to shake up this idea.

David Schatz of Yale University, who studies the origin of VDJ recombination, isn't yet totally convinced the sea urchin genes are in fact versions of RAG1 and RAG2.

Sea urchins may not have brains, but they've managed to outsmart the scientists studying them by growing their sharp spines in ways that seem to defy the laws of nature.

«We looked in the water and there were sea urchins everywhere — and no kelp.»