algae
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Both are small, with cone-shaped shells measuring about 6 mm in length, and they live on limestone rocks where they feed on algae and lichens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Think mushroom leather, spider-silk filaments, membranes of algae.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Shortly after reopening, the water turned green with algae.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
This sets off a chemical reaction freeing phosphorus, a primary nutrient for the algae, from the lake floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Evidently the algae covered the shore thickly, for it was all I could find.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"More than 80 fish were observed around a single floating alga," said Mr Mazoudier.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Blue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
This is the first recorded example of an alga practicing an aquatic equivalent to pollination.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2022
Myriam Valero, a population geneticist at CNRS, the French national research agency, has been studying the genetics of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis for many years in the tidepools of Europe.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
She is curious; she wants to know the difference between an alga and a lichen, a Diplodon char- ruanus and a Diplodon delodontus.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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