Sentences with phrase «with blennies»
Not exact matches
When predators attack, blennies on Pacific coral reefs bite back with a venom that makes the attackers so dizzy that they open their mouths to let the prey out
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Yet when Casewell, Fry and colleagues put together an evolutionary family tree for the blennies, the one genus with both fangs and venom branched off amid four genera that are all fang and no toxins, Casewell, Fry and colleagues report in the April 24 Current Biology.
After a recent flurry of news that fang blennies mix an opioid in their venom, a question lingers: What do they need with fangs anyway?
Fang blennies are small fish with big teeth.
This can be held in check with a few fish that are primarily vegetarians, such as tangs, rabbitfish and algae - blennies.
The reef is covered with a variety of moray eels, parrot fish, blennies, crabs and big schools of needle fish.
We started our Monday bubble time off with a visit to Lighthouse Wall where we saw, Yellowhead Jawfish, Arrow Blennies, Reef Sharks, Southern Stingrays and Hawksbill Turtles.
Look among the bushy and feather black corals, you can find pike blenny with their tails cocked, ready to pounce on prey.