These species tend to be tiny creatures - often insects, spiders, and worms.
And Pikmin, a game featuring tiny creatures that have stalks protruding from their heads and that live and travel in pods called Onions, arose out of his time puttering in the garden.
When it disappears, it will be a disaster for all the Arctic life that depends on ice, from the polar bears that walk on it to the tiny creatures that live within it.
Most tellingly, she says that rock cores taken recently from the crater itself show a band of sediment above the impact that contains fossils of tiny creatures that became extinct only at the end of the Cretaceous.
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The researchers looked at variations in oxygen levels in the shells of tiny sea creatures found in samples taken from the world's ocean beds.
Given the circumstances, I'm impressed by the variety and quality of what is always a multicourse lunch and dinner, with beef, game, fish, and seafood, including krill, the tiny shrimplike creatures that are a staple of whales' diets.
From what I understood, there is a species in Halo known as the Hunters which are made up of thousands of tiny, orange worm-like creatures.
And when that plastic breaks down into tiny little pieces, it is often swallowed by marine creatures and enters the food chain.
The skeletons of brittlestars, which are sea creatures related to starfish and sea urchins, contain thousands of tiny lenses that collectively form a single, distributed eye.
It's no surprise that humans are doing less and less of the dirty work while they simply control robotic creatures that are actually doing the internal repairs, but a UCLA researcher has devised a ridiculously tiny "microhand" to handle even the smallest surgery-related tasks.
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