Sentences with phrase «which octopuses»

Videos abound of the wild ways in which octopuses can escape — a bonus of being a creature born without bones.

The next step, Scheel said, is to look more closely at the context of all the signaling, in which both octopus sexes participated.

In the place of the usual suckers are rows of flashing photophores, which the octopus cannily uses to lure its prey to certain death or to startle intruders.

Housed in one of the fair's few black - box booths, Shih Chieh Huang's fantastical installation — in which an octopus - like creature, crafted from whirring and blinking electronics, kryptonite - colored goo, and plastic bags, waves comically — and sometimes suggestively.

A series of works in which the octopus imagery has been screened onto canvas and then paired with found furniture brings these issues to the forefront.

Not exact matches

Or was it an octopus, which is smart and crafty yet hides and doesn't have to be in the spotlight?

The list of heritage dishes featured include wood roasted duck, assorted cuts of dry - aged beef and Tartare Bar from Creekstone Farms, spit roasted local rabbit, roasted goat, raw oysters and roasted clams, octopus with chorizo, sturgeon, and many variations of heritage breed pig with artisan cheeses and heirloom vegetables which are all paired with the best beverages.

The smash - hit menu item at Wynwood landmark Coyo Taco is this octopus burrito, which comes with rice, beans, pico de gallo, queso, crema and fried octopus.

Heartbreak is a real thing — studies indicate the stress of a breakup can cause what's known as broken heart syndrome, or the slightly less sexy takotsubo cardiomyopathy (named unromantically after a Japanese octopus trap), which can lead to death.

Kids will love making a game of trying to toss the three rings on the octopus, which floats in the bathtub or pool.

Octopuses hail from a humble neighborhood in the taxonomic tree: the mollusks, which include snails, clams and other dimwitted animals.

They charted the efficiency and flexibility with which giant Pacific octopuses switch strategies to open different shellfish — smashing thin mussels, prying open clams, drilling tougher - shelled clams with their rasplike radulae.

In 1999 she and Anderson published an even more sensational claim: that octopuses engage in play, the deliberate, repeated, outwardly useless activity through which smarter animals explore their world and refine their skills.

Researchers at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Austria recently found one more telling indicator: Octopuses, which rely on monocular vision, favor one eye over the other.

Faced with rigid security checks, Sagarin was reminded of the flexible dynamic threat responses of the octopuses and anemones he studied, which keep both the animals and their aggressors on their metaphorical toes.

As had been observed before, the octopuses created three bends in their arms, which acted as joints.

Cephalopods, which include not only octopus but also squid, cuttlefish and nautilus, emerged as predators in the ancient oceans over 400 million years ago.

A commonly - cited example is the octopus, which has evolved a camera eye that is closely similar to that of humans, although distinctive in important ways that reflect its own history.

«Only by observing the context in which these behaviors occur in the wild can we begin to piece together how this octopus has evolved behaviors so radically different from what occurs in most other species of octopus.»

In the future, OIST plans to sequence several squid species and the Okinawan octopus, which Rokhsar hopes will become a model organism for studying cephalopod biology.

Additionally, unlike other octopus species in which females tend to die after producing a single clutch of eggs, female larger Pacific striped octopuses can lay many clutches of eggs continuously over the course of their adult lives.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

While many species of octopus are known for their showy displays of color, the larger Pacific striped octopus is particularly notable for its striking high - contrast display of colors and patterns, which can vary from a pale to dark reddish - brown hue to black with white stripes and spots with both smooth and uneven skin textures.

The researchers also used the genome to track down the genes involved in adaptive coloration, which allows the octopus to change its skin color and texture in order to blend into its environment and escape predation.

A remarkable yet little - known species of octopus is once again exciting the cephalopod community with its surprisingly social behavior, unconventional mating and reproductive habits, unusual predatory behavior, and unique body patterns, most of which have never before been observed among octopuses.

Inspired by cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish, which change their skin textures for camouflage, researchers fabricated a stretchy material that inflates into various 3 - D shapes and flattens back out.

Next, they tested the effect of the flashing on predators, which in the wild might be octopi, predatory snails, or mantis shrimp.

The most famous octopus tales involve escape and thievery, in which roving aquarium octopuses raid neighboring tanks at night for food.

The majority of neurons in an octopus are found in the arms, which can independently taste and touch and also control basic motions without input from the brain.

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans 20 feet from arm tip to arm tip.

She also found many species of jellyfish and octopus, some of which she'd never seen in the oceans.

Little is known about this octopus, which can grow to be 4 metres long and weigh 75 kilograms.

Another little - known species of deep - sea dumbo octopus, the largest of which can reach 5 - feet in length.

Blanket octopuses are pelagic, never touching the sea floor, Norman explains, which makes it hard for males to find females in the open ocean.

It's similar to the time - tested strategy used by squids and octopuses, which squirt clouds of ink into the faces of their enemies.

During that time, researchers witnessed 33 events in which dolphins handled an octopus with two different methods.

Inspired by cephalopods — squid, octopus, and cuttlefish — which use ring - shaped muscles to squeeze small bumps on their skin into large bulges that mimic rocks and algae, researchers created similar reversible protrusions with sheets of stretchy silicone.

The octopus, which was first observed decades ago by Arcadio Rodaniche, has only recently become accessible for close study.

Once the mating took place, researchers noticed something else: Instead of dropping a single brood of eggs in their lifetimes — which is thought to be common practice for octopuses — the females would continue to mate and lay eggs even as they produced hatchlings.

The smallish California two - spot octopus, which produces hatchlings that immediately act much like adults, did the trick.

The researchers also found evidence of extensive RNA editing, which allows the octopus to alter protein sequences without changing underlying DNA code.

The large size of the octopus genome was initially attributed to whole genome duplication events during evolution, which can lead to increased genomic diversity and complexity.

The octopus genome is enriched in transposons, also known as «jumping genes,» which can rearrange themselves on the genome.

Hundreds of octopus - specific genes were identified, large numbers of which were found in the nervous system, retina and suckers.

Other gene families that were dramatically expanded in the octopus include zinc finger transcription factors, which are mainly expressed in embryonic and nervous tissues and are thought to play roles in development.

Whole baby octopus, fried octopus, octopus sushi, and my favorite — Takoyaki, which is basically fried dough with octopus in the middle.

And ohhh that octopus mug... Let me know which one you get... I already have my eye on a couple of favorites.

Today, we have three new photos which continue to tease this sequence, featuring Josh Brolin holding a hammer, along with the pivotal octopus scene.

Each Green Lantern is given a ring which can turn any thought into reality, and when the Corps» best Green Lantern is killed in a battle with the Parallax (a big yellow octopus cloud thing), the ring zips off to Earth and chooses Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as a new Green Lantern, the first human ever to be entered in the ranks of the Corps.