Snippets are short clips that reveal a simple visualised event. . Here a Starfish…. Cushion Star (Asterina gibbosa) can be seen turning it’s stomach inside out. It inverts the stomach to the outside of itself, where it can digest it’s food. The food in the video is a Common Mussel (Mytilus edulis). . In the […]
Snippets – Starfish turns it’s stomach inside out Read Post »
Yikes! More fighting in the rock pools. . A Shore Crab was mugged by local Common Blennies. A fight broke out, but in the end the crab lost out and had all it’s food stolen. . The crab had already spent hours working hard for it’s living, by slowly but surely slicing out the hinges
Shore Crab mugged by Common Blennies – food stolen Read Post »
With the naked eye, no filter-feeding can be seen. Using a scientific filming method, the fluid flow becomes visible….. and so the mussel’s work, becomes observable Mussels at Work, is a short 2 minute video, revealing something that you cannot see with just the naked eye – a bivalve mollusc (Common Mussel) doing it’s
Mussels at work – filter feeding – made visible with science Read Post »
. Sea Shore Antics has an interest of seashore marine wildlife that survive in and around rock pools, tidal and near shore areas on the UK coast. . It is easily possible to look at them on the shore or at an aquarium, but seldom possible to actually see what they need to, and do get
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