Sentence examples for tiny invertebrates from inspiring English sources

Many assume that protecting large animals like jaguars or rhinos will in turn help tiny invertebrates survive.

But the human gene complement has now turned out to be far closer to genetic patrimony of these two tiny invertebrates than almost anyone had expected.

Bdelloids (like their sex drive, their "b" is silent) are rotifers, tiny invertebrates that live in fresh water and other moist habitats.

"We are used to conceiving of theropods as dinosaurs with big teeth adapted to hunting large prey," Dr. Makovicky said yesterday, "but these beaked theropods adapted very differently and may have lived on tiny invertebrates similar to brine shrimp".

That's bad news not only for clams, oysters and scallops, but for tens of thousands of lesser known species — echinoderms like star fish and sea urchins, colonies of tiny invertebrates, reef corals and many others.

Despite these challenges, few studies have shown that the dark reef (i.e., the matrix of crevices and caves) is a hotspot for microorganisms22 and meiofauna (e.g., amphipods and other tiny invertebrates) that are active during the night23.

What most of us see underwater and identify as 'coral,' is actually a colony of thousands upon thousands of tiny invertebrate animals (coral polyps) nestled together and built up upon the calcium carbonate (limestone) 'skeletons' of sometimes thousands of years worth of old coral colonies.

During a recent field trip to Greenland, they collected specimens of the tiny invertebrate and have stored them in a freezer.

At least 29 species of minuscule frogs in equatorial regions worldwide live in leaf litter or moss that is moist year-round and eat even tinier invertebrates, creating a previously unknown "ecological guild" of similar animals with similar life habits, he said.

This was Europeans' first encounter with one of the natural wonders of the world: a 2,600km chain of hundreds of islands and thousands of individual reefs, built by tiny marine invertebrates and home to a ravishingly colour-saturated underwater world teeming with life.

Animal moves can vary in scale from tiny, delicate invertebrates, such as butterfly pupae, to large and dangerous animals including lions or gorillas.