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Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida [1] (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora and Vestimentifera) related to tube worms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones.
At each chronon, each shark is deprived of a unit of energy. Upon reaching zero energy, a shark dies. If a shark moves to a square occupied by a fish, it eats the fish and earns a certain amount of energy. Once a shark has survived a certain number of chronons it may reproduce in exactly the same way as the fish.
For the deep-sea ecosystem, the death of a whale is the most important event. A dead whale can bring hundreds of tons of organic matter to the bottom. Whale fall community progresses through three stages: [32] Mobile scavenger stage: Big and mobile deep-sea animals arrive at the site almost immediately after whales fall on the bottom.
Marine life, sea life or ocean life is the collective ecological communities that encompass all aquatic animals, plants, algae, fungi, protists, single-celled microorganisms and associated viruses living in the saline water of marine habitats, either the sea water of marginal seas and oceans, or the brackish water of coastal wetlands, lagoons ...
Anchor's fans quickly swarmed Adventure Aquarium's page to share their stories and photos of their own. As of Wednesday, there were 207 comments on the aquarium's Facebook post.
Suction feeding is a method of ingesting a prey item in fluids by sucking the prey into the predator's mouth. It is a highly coordinated behavior achieved by the dorsal rotation of the dermatocranium, lateral expansion of the suspensorium, and the depression of the lower jaw and hyoid. [2]
The egg cases of catsharks are purse-shaped with long tendrils at the corners that serve to anchor them to structures on the sea floor. The size of egg cases vary; those of the small-spotted catshark or lesser spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula , are around 5 centimetres (2 in) long, while those of the greater spotted dogfish , S. stellaris ...
The Isonade (磯撫で, "beach stroker") is an enormous, shark-like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan. [2] Description