Plankton in sentence

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["Plankton" comes from the Greek "planktos" for wandering] My fellow plankton came in all sizes, from tiny algae and bacteria to animals longer than a blue whale.

Here among the plankton, the food web is so tangled and complex, even scientists don't know who eats whom.

Tiny particles swirl down through the darkness while flashes of bioluminescence give us a clue that these waters teem with life: microbes, plankton, fish.

Well, it now turns out that the whales are crucial to sustaining that entire ecosystem, and one of the reasons for this is that they often feed at depth and then they come up to the surface and produce what biologists politely call large fecal plumes, huge explosions of poop right across the surface waters, up in the photic zone, where there's enough light to allow photosynthesis to take place, and those great plumes of fertilizer stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, the plant plankton at the bottom of the food chain, which stimulate the growth of zooplankton, which feed the fish and the krill and all the rest of it.

But why this is so important, why this picture is up, is because this particular animal brought his friends around, and instead of being the pelagic animals that they were, they started getting curious about us, these new strangers that were moving into the neighborhood, doing things with plankton.

When plankton concentrations become patchy, manta rays feed alone and they somersault themselves backwards again and again, very much like a puppy chasing its own tail.

However, when plankton densities increase, the mantas line up head-to-tail to form these long feeding chains, and any tasty morsel that escapes the first or second manta in line is surely to be gobbled up by the next or the one after.

As plankton levels peak in the bay, the mantas swim closer and closer together in a unique behavior we call cyclone feeding.

And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.

Here, barely two miles away from what is arguably the greatest marine biology lab in the world, we lower a simple plankton net into the water and bring up to the surface things that humanity rarely pays any attention to, and oftentimes has never seen before.

And the basking shark opens its mouth, and it swims through the water, collecting plankton.

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

The chalk itself's composed by plankton which has fallen down from the sea surface onto the sea floor, so that 90 percent of the sediment here is skeleton of living stuff, and then you have that millimeter-thick red layer, and then you have black rock.

And the black rock is the sediment on the sea bottom in the absence of plankton.

That's bad news for coral reefs and oxygen-producing plankton.

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl from the gyre north of Hawaii with more plastic than plankton.

Now, how do we analyze samples like this one that contain more plastic than plankton?

And down there, you find that the water is very clear, extremely clear, because there's hardly any plankton.

In this place, I get to study the base of the food web: plankton.

Now, the problem is the ocean's a moving target and, much like some people in our lives, toxicity varies among the plankton.

Somewhere around China, a fish developed jaws, and its descendants drove jawless fishes, sea scorpions and branching plankton to extinction.

This is some shot, by Dr. Mike Latz at Scripps Institution, of a dolphin swimming through bioluminescent plankton.

It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.

But since we ate all the oysters and we ate all the fish that would eat the plankton, there's nothing to eat the plankton and there's more and more of it, so it dies of old age, which is unheard of for plankton.

Then the plankton feeders, these little damselfish, the little animals floating in the water.

We see the base of the food chain, the plankton, the small things, and we see how those animals are food to animals in the middle of the pyramid, and on so up this diagram.

The dolphins eat the fish that have PCBs from the plankton, and those PCBs, being fat-soluble, accumulate in these dolphins.

And as you go down, they're catching all kinds of plankton, bumping into, you know, little wisps of life that are the food for the planktivores, the herring kind of fish.

The plankton and the plankton eaters, you know, these are the little herring fish that go through the water column with their mouths open, feeding indiscriminately and just lapping up this brown pudding of toxic stuff.

As for plankton, it's half Piranha - half The Thing, with people turninging into monsters, raping women, and causing general mayhem.

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