Sentences with phrase «venomous fish»

Stonefish are the most venomous fish in the world, and can inflict an incredibly painful wound.

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History estimate s some 1,200 species of venomous fish based on DNA and anatomic studies.

He helped retool the academy's safety standards, running drills to test and fine - tune protocols for responding to emergencies such as venomous fish bites.

Not exact matches

Once the venomous spines are cooked or removed, they become a non-issue, and it turns out lionfish are as tasty as any other white fish.

Before his plane touches down in each, he will be able to recite all the local diseases, venomous snakes, frogs, bugs, and fish, and poisonous plants.

With venomous spines, no natural predators in the Atlantic Ocean, and aggressive behavior, the lionfish have been shown to eat almost anything smaller than they are — fish, shrimp, crabs and octopus.

While in the larvae stage, the Nematostella fall prey to larger fish but once mature, they become predators themselves, catching shrimp and small fish with their venomous tentacles.

Their paper in the Journal of Heredity notes that the fish does make up the bulk of the 2,000 species of venomous vertebrates; about 500 snake species are poisonous.

For hungry fish, corals make a difficult meal: venomous, coated with mucus and embedded in a razor - sharp, calcified skeleton.

Grabbing or accidentally touching one of the fish can result in painful stings from the animal's venomous spines.

«Predatory fish will not eat those fishes because they think they are venomous and going to cause them harm, but this protection provided also allows some of these mimics to get very close to unsuspecting fish to feed on them, by picking on their scales as a micropredator,» says study co-author Nicholas Casewell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

«Fish with venomous dorsal spines produce immediate and blinding pain.

Nonvenomous fang blennies and other small fish capitalize on the venom's success by mimicking venomous fang blennies» colors and patterns.

A blood - orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net.

Chickens, fish, foxes, goats, monkeys, pigs (pot - belly or any other), scorpions, snapping turtles, spiders, tarantulas, wildlife and any venomous species.

Chickens, fish, foxes, goats, monkeys, pigs (pot - belly or any other), scorpions, snapping turtles, spiders, tarantulas, wildlife and any venomous specis.

We do not examine primates, venomous snakes, fish and zoo animals, such as huge cats and wallabys.

This octopus mimics venomous sole, lion fish, sea snakes, sea anemones, and jellyfish.