Sentences with phrase «where gills»

The oil in the Gulf poses a critical threat to whale sharks because they are filter feeders who spend a considerable amount of time at the surface where their gills may get coated with oil and stop functioning.

«There is a point where the gills can not supply enough oxygen for a larger body, so the fish just stops growing larger.»

The team placed the rainbow trout larvae in a box with two compartments: one for the head, where gills develop, and one for the tail.

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My father is a huge Football fan and every year my parents would have a Big Game party where our house would be packed to the gills.

The Biggest Baby Shower is an expo - style event where attendees pay for tickets to access a beautiful room stuffed to the gills with the stuff a pregnant woman needs to know about in her first year of motherhood.

And since gills are full of bacteria, because that's where the water is filtered, they can generate unpleasant aromas.

Fish have just a few large blood vessels that bring blood to and from the gills, where tiny vessels pick up oxygen from the water.

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

Distributors, take note: the arthouse where I saw it was stuffed to the gills with people whose appreciation of the film positively sang in one's ears.

In a basically wordless performance, Sally Hawkins stars as a mute cleaning woman working at a high - tech government facility, where she forges a cross-species bond with the towering fishman (Doug Jones, back in prosthetic gills after his similarly aquatic turn in Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the Amazon.

The all important heartline begins its journey in the blade dissecting the shark - like gills on either side of the grille before leading the eye to the top of the front wing, emphasised by the bi-xenon headlamp and integral LED daytime running lights, into the door and towards the rear of the car where it gracefully disappears.

The styling is somewhat bland — where previous X5's have stood out among luxury crossovers, this one isn't exactly memorable, save for the little gills behind the front wheels.

The all important heartline begins its journey in the blade dissecting the shark - like gills on either side of the grille before leading the eye to the top of the front wing, emphasized by the bi-xenon headlamp and integral LED daytime running lights, into the door and towards the rear of the car where it gracefully disappears.

Water taken in through the siphon, passes over the gills where food particles are removed and digested.

This edition was created exclusively for the Whitechapel Gallery to accompany Gauri Gills inclusion in the Exhibition Where three Dreams Cross, 2009 - a landmark exhibition which gave an inside view of how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been shaped through the lens of their photographers.

This reveal is designed to be the gills of the building, literally providing an enclosed, louvered exterior space where the heating and cooling equipment live, allowing the building system to «breathe».

The odd thing is that the Hospital and Research Institute where I work was filled to the gills with liberals six years ago, but now not so many.

Instead, the case went to trial, where Martinez argued that Gills had been wrongly identified.