Dense assemblages of filter-feeding invertebrates at lake outlets, and their abrupt decline downstream, have been attributed to gradients in food (seston: quantity, quality, particle size), ...
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(Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were not ...
A new filter-feeding giant that trolled the Cambrian seas has been unearthed in Greenland. The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny ...
Zooplankton filter feed small suspended solids (SS) while filter-feeding fish (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) feed on large suspended particles. The combination should control SS and nutrients in ...
Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections surrounding their mouths to modify the mouth's shape while they collected food. Experts have used CT scanning techniques to build up the ...
Manta rays were built for speed — and to filter feed. The aerodynamic ocean dwellers efficiently separate plankton from seawater using a previously unknown kind of filtration system that resists clogs ...
Sharks mostly eat other marine animals, often invertebrates, or plankton. Their diet consists of small fish, mollusks, crustaceans and sometimes bigger species like dolphins or sea lions. Most sharks ...
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