The American paddlefish (Polyodon) feeds by straining plankton (mostly tiny, drifting aquatic organisms) through its gill system and has been described as a living plankton net.
A team of scientists has now managed to simulate these journeys on a mass scale, using a computer model that followed 8 million tiny drifting particles that represented the eel larvae.
Scientists have also found that countless tiny fragments drift to the bottom of the oceans, carpeting the sea bed.
A tiny otter, drifting out toward the horizon to become food for a large ocean predator.
At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along in the current just offshore.
I heard him turnaway from me again, and imagined the tiny hairs drifting towardthe plane's low ceiling.
Across the street stands the Vines, one of Liverpool's original Edwardian gin palaces, currently home to a popular Irish karaoke night and a video installation by Gabriel Lester called the Last Smoking Flight, in which a tiny aeroplane drifts across clouds of tobacco smoke.
Poor Yiayia was a shadow of her former self, a thin, tiny woman drifting into her senile dementia shadows, rarely cognizant of her surroundings.
Collisions among these larger bits of debris, they say, create tiny particles that drift from the arc, filling in the ring.
