Sentences with word «anglerfish»

Most of what we know about deep - sea anglerfish comes from dead animals pulled up in nets.
At just 6.2 millimeters long, a swamp - dwelling male anglerfish from Southeast Asia, first described in 2005, is currently regarded as the world's smallest vertebrate.
Like many other species of anglerfish, C. jordani forms a permanent pair bond — once a male finds a mate, he bites into her, eventually fusing with her tissue and gaining sustenance through her blood stream.
A quarter - inch - long male anglerfish from the Philippines is unquestionably the shortest fish, and he is all man — literally.
It shows a fist - size female anglerfish, resplendent with bioluminescent lights and elongated whiskerlike structures projecting outward from her body.
The male anglerfish spends his adult life attached by the jaws to a seven - times - longer female who does all the hunting and swimming while the male takes care of insemination.
AND THERE WAS LIGHT Most deep - sea anglerfish lures glow with light that is generated by an enzyme called luciferase.
CLINGY RELATIONSHIPS The male anglerfish chomps down on the female, which may be 25 times his size, and never lets go.
Although anglerfish are notoriously difficult to collect and study, scientists are steadily learning more about their biology and their evolutionary origins.
Earlier this year an analysis of mitochondrial DNA conducted by researchers in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan estimated that the first anglerfish appeared about 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, and quickly diversified as they spread into habitats ranging from shallow waters to the continental shelves to the harsh deeps.
She is a leviathan; a grotesque, eyeless anglerfish, more than 500,000 times his weight.
A ghostly 3 - inch - long deep - sea white anglerfish.
In some deep - sea ceratioid anglerfishes, males stay miniature and upon finding a female meld tissue with her giant body and thereafter live off her circulatory system.
Let it not be said that nothing good ever came from an oil spill, as this newly described species of deep - sea anglerfish shows
«Frogfishes, members of the group known as anglerfishes, are usually provided with a «fishing pole,» tipped with a fleshy «bait,» located on the snout and derived from the first dorsal fin spine.
From a spectacularly weird anglerfish to the largest carnivorous sundew plant seen in the New World, this list of novel new species gives hope that all isn't lost.
Britz wants to disqualify the species on the grounds that the female anglerfish is too big, but Pietsch sticks up for the little guy: «He's not just a degenerate flap of skin.»
Cases include populations of elephant seals (above), in which large, aggressive males sexually harass harems of females, and of deep - sea anglerfishes, in which males live as tiny parasites permanently attached to the bellies of their large, predatory female partners.
THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH When the anglerfish's jaw opens, it creates suction that pulls her victim inside.
High - speed cinematography from the University of Washington has revealed that anglerfish can pop open their mouths in just four milliseconds.
This lie - in - wait strategy was long suspected and finally confirmed in 2005 by a remotely operated underwater vehicle that captured some of the first footage of an anglerfish in the wild.
GONE FISHING Over millions of years of evolution, the front-most spine of the anglerfish dorsal fin developed into a fishing rod with fleshy «bait» dangling at the end.
The mysterious and bizarre - looking anglerfish, which bear names like triplewart sea devil and wolf - trap anglerfish, sport remarkable adaptations that allow them to thrive where shallow - water fish would instantly perish.
More than a mile beneath the ocean's surface there is no sunlight, but the darkness does not reign undisturbed: Anglerfish and other bioluminescent animals cast an ominous glow in the sea's deepest reaches.
An expandable stomach can hold fish larger than the anglerfish herself.
Like other deep - sea anglerfish, the female has a bioluminescent, lurelike appendage that drifts in front of her head to attract prey.
Anglerfish are an incredibly diverse group, with «a marvelous variety of structures and species,» but they're hard to study because they dwell hundreds to thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean, says Peter Bartsch, a fish scientist at the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
Anglerfish, with their menacing gape and dangling lure, are among the most curious inhabitants of the deep ocean.
Anglerfish and comedy always seemed like a natural pairing.
Some, like the anglerfish, harbour colonies of bacteria to do the job, but most generate the light for themselves.
Giant octopus, electric eels, and anglerfish have all tickled our imagination over the past several centuries, and left us in awe of the capabilities of life.
So, anglerfish are pretty much the most awesome of all of the deep sea fish... so that dress gets many many points in my book.
It has an anglerfish on it!
She's all teeth and jaws and flaring eyes, like some cross between Amanda Peet and an Anglerfish.
Divers enjoy views of sea turtles, octopuses, anglerfish, conger eels and colorful pink and green parrotfish.
Learn how to draw an anglerfish!
A recent study of ocean life in the depths near Greenland has turned up some 38 species of fish, 10 of which, like this anglerfish, were previously unknown to the region — and are quite fugly too.
But it turns out that this fish, a «longhead dreamer» anglerfish, is not alone
But it turns out that this fish, a «longhead dreamer» anglerfish, is not alone when it comes to ugly mugs — in fact, compared to some other fish discovered in his neck of the woods, he's actually kind of cute.
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