Sentence examples for floating organisms from inspiring English sources

These fishes feed at night and have bright photophores, or bioluminescent organs, at the tips of their lower jaws; they appear to use these organs much like tiny searchlights as they feed on planktonic (minute floating) organisms.

Ooze, pelagic (deep-sea) sediment of which at least 30 percent is composed of the skeletal remains of microscopic floating organisms.

The varying ocean temperatures during and between the major advances of glaciers during the ice ages have been inferred by analyzing the isotopic composition of the skeletons of floating organisms recovered as fossils in sediment on the seafloor.

Dangerous floating organisms, Metroids can latch on to any organism and drain its life energy to kill it.

However, cultures from clinical specimens, particularly cerebrospinal fluid, might be negative due to a paucity of free floating organisms.

The effects of other submarine volcanoes along the Pacific Northwest, including Cobb Seamount off the coast of Washington, can be noticed in the composition and abundance of the tiny floating organisms called plankton up to 30 km away from the seamount summit.

The find represents the first direct evidence that whole communities of organisms can make long ocean voyages floating on organic rafts.

"Weights and Measures," from 2007, a simple, nearly three-minute digital animation, shows different objects and organisms floating in a deep blue, oceanic background.

There are no lack of virulent organisms floating around any time of the year.

Like insects in an entomologist's display case, Ivana Bašić's new sculptures at Marlborough Contemporary possess the uncanniness of organisms floating between life and death.

Although bacteria are capable of existing in a planktonic form, i.e. as single organisms floating in their fluid environment, there are instances in which it is advantageous for bacteria to live within a biofilm.