A measure of the total mass accretion of meteoritic material by the Earth is obtained from analyses of deep-sea sediments and dust collected in remote regions ( Pettersson, 1960 ).

Eighty-five percent of the specimens were organic, soft-shelled allogromiids, which is unusual compared to samples of sediment-dwelling organisms from other deep-sea environments, where the percentage of organic-walled foraminifera ranges from 5 % to 20 %.

The Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority is facilitating these activities by creating and maintaining an ongoing list of opportunities for scientific collaboration, including research cruises, deep-sea sample analysis, and training and internship programmes.

A helium-oxygen breathing gas is often used by deep-sea divers at depths of seawater over 55 m ( 180 ft ) to keep the diver from experiencing oxygen toxemia, the lethal effect of high-pressure oxygen, and nitrogen narcosis, the distracting narcotic effect of the nitrogen in air beyond this partial-pressure threshold.

While almost all echinoderms are benthic — that is, they live on the sea floor — some sea-lilies can swim at great velocity for brief periods of time, and a few deep-sea sea cucumbers are fully floating.

It is most commonly applied to members of the deep-sea genus Sebastes, or the reef dwelling snappers, Lutjanus.

Usually it is the more widely spread species that fare better in extinction, and hence this unusual pattern could be explained by a GRB, which would probably devastate creatures living on land and near the ocean surface, but leave deep-sea creatures relatively unharmed.

The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish.

The zone that deep-sea fish do not inhabit is the epipelagic zone ( 0m-200m ), which is the area where light penetrates the water and photosynthesis occurs.

The deep-sea is also an extremely hostile environment, with temperatures that " rarely exceed 3 ° C and fall as low as-1. 8 ° C " ( with the exception of hydrothermal vent ecosystems that can exceed 350 ° C ), low oxygen levels, and pressures between 20 and 1, 000 atmospheres ( between 2 and 100 megapascals )..

For this reason little is known about them, as there are limitations to the amount of fruitful research that can be carried out on a dead specimen and deep-sea exploratory equipment is very expensive.

Since many of these fish live in regions where there is no natural illumination, they cannot rely solely on their eyesight for locating prey and mates and avoiding predators ; deep-sea fish have evolved appropriately to the extreme sub-photic region in which they live.

The deep-sea angler fish in particular has a long fishing-rod-like adaptation protruding from its face, on the end of which is a bioluminescent piece of skin that wriggles like a worm to lure its prey.

MBARI is renowned worldwide for its research on deep-sea marine life and other programs in marine biology.

The estuary is navigable here for the largest of deep-sea vessels.

A recently-discovered modern gastropod that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents illustrates the influence of both ancient and modern local chemical environments: its shell is made of aragonite, which is found in some of the earliest fossil mollusks ; but it also has armor plates on the sides of its foot, and these are mineralized with the iron sulfides pyrite and greigite, which had never previously been found in any metazoan but whose ingredients are emitted in large quantities by the vents.

This is in sharp contrast with the typical deep-sea habitat, where deposit-feeding animals rely on food they get off the ground.

Gas embolism is a common concern for deep-sea divers because the gases in our blood ( usually nitrogen and helium ) can be easily dissolved at higher amounts during the descent into deep sea.

* Lamellibrachia luymesi, a deep-sea cold-seep tubeworm, is estimated to reach ages of over 250 years based on a model of its growth rates.

There is spear fishing and deep-sea fishing and also scuba diving.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

Also, salt water fish is on the table once a week.

An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, both features not found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

The similarity of these to the scales of bony fish is largely superficial.

Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.

In their normal gait, only one leg is advanced at a time in the manner adopted by their ancestors, the lobe-finned fish.

In the juvenile ( or tadpole ) stage, gills are used to oxygenate blood and the circulation is similar to that of fish.

The amphibian brain is less well developed than that of reptiles, birds and mammals but is similar in morphology and function to that of a fish.

It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

Exposure to high levels of methylmercury, through consumption of fish with high mercury concentrations, is also a known cause of ataxia and other neurological disorders.

The diversity of animals in the Andes is high, with almost 600 species of mammals ( 13 % endemic ), more than 1, 700 species of birds ( about 1 / 3 endemic ), more than 600 species of reptile ( about 45 % endemic ), and almost 400 species of fish ( about 1 / 3 endemic ).

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One rumor is that Page was asked to leave after eating a fish tail with a neighbor.

It is known in Yoruba as efo tete or arowo jeja ( meaning " we have money left over for fish ").

It is boiled, then served with olive oil and lemon like a salad, usually alongside fried fish.

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The reported output from global aquaculture operations would supply one half of the fish and shellfish that is directly consumed by humans ; however, there are issues about the reliability of the reported figures.

Using a bow and arrow to take fish is known as bow fishing.

It is not at all uncommon to find raw fish listed next to tortillas on the same menu.

The Mexican tetra or Blind Cave Fish ( Astyanax mexicanus ) is a fresh-water fish

This fish, especially the blind variant, is reasonably popular among.