Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing...

Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Filter, filtering, filters or filtration may also refer to: Filter (higher-order...

largest fishes, and the baleen whales, all of which are described as filter feeders. Filtration is used to separate particles and fluid in a suspension...

plants, soils, and insects to treat and prevent disease. An opportunistic feeder sustains itself from a number of different food sources, because the species...

detritus is known as marine snow. Bottom feeders may gather detritus manually, as some crab species do; or filter microparticles out of the water using suspension...

migratory species found in all the world's temperate oceans. A slow-moving filter feeder, its common name derives from its habit of feeding at the surface, appearing...

of free-swimming sharks. Whale sharks have very large mouths and are filter feeders, which is a feeding mode that occurs in only two other sharks, the megamouth...

fish, have evolved a number of specialized feeding mechanisms, such as filter feeding, ram feeding, suction feeding, protrusion, and pivot feeding. Most...

Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus...

initiated scientific study of the fossil, the earliest known of a "giant" filter-feeder discovered to date. Aegirocassis is considered to have evolved from...