Sentence examples for tiny mollusks from inspiring English sources

But a new study of 245 endangered or recently extinct species around the world, everything from giant pandas to tiny mollusks, shows that this idea does not necessarily hold.

The park, with a heavily used soccer field and riverfront walk, sits on century-old timbers that were riddled with shipworms, or teredos, tiny mollusks that bore into wood.

Another deceptively simple, straightforward dish is periwinkles on pumpernickel: thick slices of excellent crusty bread with a soft interior, spread with a garlic mayo and crowned with cascades of the tiny mollusks, from the cold Atlantic waters of Maine and Massachusetts, mixed with shavings of black truffles.

To find out how this panoply of tiny mollusks evolved, Etter's team adopted a technique used by biologists to assess the genetic diversity of animals on land--they compared the sequence of a common gene called 16S RNA.

And after studying the tiny mollusk's every twitch and shudder for nearly a decade, Mr. Schuler, a biologist who grew up on a farm in Ohio, thinks he knows what's in it.

The tiny creatures, various mollusks and crustaceans, burrow into a dock's pilings and eat away at the wood.

In tank tests, such conditions can interfere with the reef-building ability of corals and shell production in some mollusks and tiny plankton.

For example, Geerat Vermeij, a biologist at the University of California-Davis who has been blind since the age of 3, has identified many new species of mollusks based on tiny variations in the contours of their shells.

As oceans continue to warm and acidify, the survival of the tiny floating young of marine mollusks (Haliotis coccoradiata) and sea urchins (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) looks bleak, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of Royal Society B. Born in the open ocean, these marine invertebrates develop delicate skeletons and shells of calcium before they colonize rougher coastal waters.

Increasingly, however, these mollusks are exposed to tiny pieces of plastic the same size as oysters' preferred plankton meals.

Within six hours, billions of particles that were 250nm (that's about 0.00025 mm) were found throughout the scallops' intestines, while even tinier pieces measuring 20nm were lodged in the mollusks' kidneys and gills.