What I mean is this: When I was watching, I never wondered about the technology behind the merman — the sometimes-monstrous, sometimes-beautiful aquatic character inspired by the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
We've seen a similar aquatic character in Del Toro's previous franchise, Hellboy, Abe Sapien.
The script for the upcoming sequel to Finding Nemo was altered after the release of SeaWorld documentary Blackfish to ensure that the aquatic characters were allowed more freedom in an ending involving a marine park.
We have coded the following behavioral characters in our matrix: aquatic habitat (character 618 [state 1]), herbivorous diet (character 658 [state 2]), and ability to interpret the direction of sounds under water (character 659 [state 1]).
By way of contrast, he is also said to be contributing to a stage musical based on the aquatic cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.
Somewhere on the stem to Cetacea, diet changed from herbivory to aquatic carnivory (character 658 [state 3]), but using parsimony alone we cannot reconstruct unambiguously where the behavioral change occured Parsimony-based optimization also implies that all living and extinct cetancodontans shared a derived ability to hear underwater sounds at least as well as extant Hippopotamus.
LuAnn Adams, a storyteller, will offer Russian folk tales, using aquatic animals as characters.
Three groups of oxbow lakes distinguished on the basis of hydrological connectivity and retention time (lotic, semi-lotic and lentic) showed significant spatial and temporal differences in chemical parameters of water and matter cycling in relation to water table fluctuations, sediment character and aquatic plant diversity.
Because pipid sound production appears to be linked to the adaptation to aquatic environment [ 20] and character states in fossil taxa are unknown, we assume its single origin in the ancestor of Pipidae and a subsequent reversal in Pseudhymenochirus, i.e., two transformations.
Mr. Meyer, who started his company in a North Hollywood garage nine years ago, said the digital data that creates and animates virtual characters like the aquatic creatures from "Finding Nemo" can easily be translated and fed into a rapid prototyping machine just like the data obtained from laser-scanning a person or a thing.
Character states in four larval characters were found to be significantly correlated with aquatic to terrestrial transitions in Tetanocera where each larval character changed in the same way as multiple lineages made independent habitat transitions.
