Sentences with phrase «with snail shells»

The team also plans to carry out similar experiments with snail shells collected across the Indian subcontinent.

The team also plans to carry out similar experiments with snail shells collected across the Indian subcontinent.

Not exact matches

Easton likes to serve lumache, which literally translates to «snail,» with beautiful garden vegetables to parallel the shape of the shell.

With every activation, the snail rolls and spins its shell, motivating baby to catch and reactivate.

Most hermit crabs favor snail shells, although some use the shells of bivalves, like clams and scallops, and others have made do with driftwood, stones and pieces of glass or plastic bottles.

Limpets are like snails, but with a cone - shaped shell.

Take snails that have shells, pick them, and with the juice that cometh from them rub the wart every day for the space of seven or eight days, and it will destroy them.

By gently prodding snail embryos with fine glass rods, Japanese researchers were able to temporarily change the shell's direction of rotation.

The new species Zospeum tholussum is a miniature and fragile snail, with a beautifully shaped dome - like translucent shell.

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).

Hendricks compared the preserved patterns with those of modern Caribbean cone snail shells and found that many of the fossils showed similar patterns, indicating that some modern species belong to lineages that survived in the Caribbean for millions of years.

This became obvious when the researchers noticed that the mounds were littered with the shells of dead freshwater snails.

Bundles of chromosomes in snail embryos (red arrows in top panels) and cell boundaries (white arrows in middle panels) start twisting early in development for snails with right - spiraling shells (right column).

They target the largest rock oysters, bludgeoning them with stone hammers, and pry open the meatiest snail and crab shells with the flattened edges of their tools.

The rainfall patterns reconstructed from the 2009 snail shells have «good consistency with rainfall,» said Anant Parekh of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, who did not participate in the project.

Slow down signs of aging with Dr. Organic's Snail Gel, which utilizes the exclusive substance snails produce in order to restore their shells and skin.

These beautiful snail shaped shell earrings are of a fine green patina set with pearls giving them an opulent quality.

Starring an ivory intarsia of a snail tucked into a heart - shaped shell, this ModCloth - exclusive pullover provides the world with a delightful taste of your darling personality.

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.

This snail makes an excellent ceviche (raw or cooked seafood marinated in lime juice with vegetables), and the shell polishes to make nice jewelry.

Most snails can withdraw completely inside their shell when threatened and close the opening with a lid called an operculum.

She explained to me that once the sea snails were cooked — in salt water from the sea mind you — they would each pluck the snails out of their shells with their clothespins and eat them over rice.

Among the marvels was a seventeenth - century nautilus shell, cleverly transformed by a German goldsmith to resemble a snail, with the painted silver figure of a Moor — perhaps a personification of Africa — whimsically riding on top (Fig. 4).

The New Orleans sculpture, which Thomas titled «History of Conquest,» is based on «Snail with Nautilus Shell,» a delicate 8 - by -10-inch piece of art that was created in 1630 from a nautilus shell and gilded silver by German artist Jeremias Ritter.

Mario Merz Senza Titolo (Untitled), 1982 oil and water - based paint with clay, snail shell and leaves on wood 35 1/4 x 65 1/4 inches (89,5 x 165,7 cm) SW 07299 Private Collection

In 2014, NOAA News promoted another paper by Bednarsek about dissolving sea butterfly shells with the headlines, «NOAA - Led Researchers Discover Ocean Acidity Is Dissolving Shells Of Tiny Snails Off The U.S. West Coast.&shells with the headlines, «NOAA - Led Researchers Discover Ocean Acidity Is Dissolving Shells Of Tiny Snails Off The U.S. West Coast.&Shells Of Tiny Snails Off The U.S. West Coast.»

The acidity could eat away the shells of such animals as the petropod, a nearly microscopic snail with a calcium carbonate covering that's eaten by krill, salmon and whales.

The rainfall patterns reconstructed from the 2009 snail shells have «good consistency with rainfall,» said Anant Parekh of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, who did not participate in the project.

In times of drought, however, snails end up using water with the heavy oxygen by necessity and are forced to incorporate heavier molecules into their shells.