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• Female argonauts tuck masses of tiny eggs into spare space in the structure, Vecchione notes, much as bottom-dwelling octopuses protect their eggs in rock crevices.
• He is conciliatory and self-deprecating, likening himself to a bottom-dwelling scavenger fish called a loach. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Moving into samba territory, the song shuffles among spicy guitar licks and a bottom-dwelling bassline.
• Historically they have radiated (divided into new species) in bathyal habitats (bottom-dwelling on the continental slope between 200 and 2000 m in depth) and cool-water coastal areas.
• Fishing techniques such as trawling, in which nets are dragged along the bottom of the ocean, are highly destructive to all kinds of benthic (bottom-dwelling) life. Economics of fisheries
• From the same family as rays, skates are bottom-dwelling fish usually found in shallow coastal waters.
• The 20-day expedition aimed to uncover relationships between cold-water coral and other bottom-dwelling creatures in a pristine yet "alien" environment, according to the researchers' blog.
• This zone shows the fragile relationship between predators and prey. Large predatory sharks, rays and giant groupers live alongside schools of fish and bottom-dwelling animals.
• In 2009, LSU's Chakrabarty discovered two new species of bottom-dwelling pancake batfish about 30 miles off the Louisiana coastline – right in line with the pathway of the spill caused when the Deepwater Horizon burned and sank April 24. Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say
• The 20-day expedition aimed to uncover relationships between cold-water coral and other bottom-dwelling creatures in a pristine yet "alien" environment, according to the researchers' blog.