Gills are feathery organs made of thin tissues filled with blood vessels that help to move oxygen out of the water and into the fish’s bloodstream while also removing carbon dioxide. But how does that happen? Fish breathe underwater by swallowing water, as opposed to breathing air. The wate...
Sea Slugs: What do sea slugs eat?Plankton, algae, and jellyfishare all prey of these animals. Some of these animals are herbivores eating algae and other plant life off rocks. Can a sea slug hurt you? This sea slug stores stinging nematocysts from the siphonophores within its own tissu...
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To identify QQ activities of Aurelia aurita-associated microbes, over hundred bacteria were isolated from different life stages of the jellyfish, of which 25% showed QQ activities against AHL as well as AI-2-mediated QS using a recently established reporter system (Weiland-Bräuer et al., 2015...
Animals that have a spinal column or backbone are classified as vertebrates while those lacking a spinal cord are invertebrates. Examples of vertebrates would be humans, dogs, snakes, birds, and cows. Insects, worms, and jellyfish would be examples of invertebrates. Usually, vertebrates are ...
MIT researchers developed hydrogel robots that are powerful, precise, gentle, and transparent. They just need a purpose.
Even though sharks are the hungry monsters of the sea, they don’t threatenhumans. People are less likely to encounter sharks than other marine animals like jellyfish. Sharks are highly sensitive to disturbances in the water, so they steer clear of swimmers. Even whensharks attack humans, it...
Lead study author Professor Lior Applebaum notes that “Despite the risk of reduced awareness to the environment, animals — ranging from jellyfish to zebrafish to humans — have to sleep to allow their neurons to perform efficient DNA maintenance, and this is possibly the reason why sleep has ...
What does zooplankton produce? Zooplankton and other small marine creatures eatphytoplanktonand then become food for fish, crustaceans, and other larger species. Phytoplankton make their energy through photosynthesis, the process of using chlorophyll and sunlight to create energy. ...
water contamination. If radioactive material from the waste were to mix with flowing water, it would be able to move relatively swiftly through the bedrock and into the soil and large bodies of water such as lakes and rivers, finally entering the food chain via plants, fish and other ...