How to Use anglerfish in a Sentence

anglerfish

noun
  • Male anglerfish are tiny — sometimes less than one-tenth the size of the females.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And yet, some male anglerfish are full-time grafts — the ultimate live-in boyfriends.
    — Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 30 July 2020
  • Pietsch says this is only the third time deep-sea anglerfish behavior has been caught on film.
    — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
  • To solve both problems, the female anglerfish must use a glowing lure to draw in meals and lovers.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The second-hardest shots are of some of the deep-water anglerfish.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The anglerfish has done the same thing through evolution, Boehm says.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 31 July 2020
  • Hoshi is mesmerized and wants to know how the anglerfish is glowing so brightly in the sea.
    — Dawn Guest, star-telegram, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The male anglerfish chomps down on the female, which may be 25 times his size, and never lets go.
    — Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2010
  • Pietsch said anglerfish might have evolved this bizarre mating strategy to survive in the depths where food is scarce.
    — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The anglerfish is usually a blackish color and can grow to be around 4 feet.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Love can leave us defenseless, but for some species of deep sea anglerfish letting their guard down for new romance is in their genes.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • Deep-sea anglerfish are a strange and fascinating sight to behold.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
  • An anglerfish, also known as monkfish, preys on a torpedo ray.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Here's why anglerfish have managed to capture and keep our attention.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2019
  • Male anglerfish, which are only an inch long, bite onto females to fertilize their eggs.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 19 May 2024
  • This depiction is pretty similar to what an anglerfish does in the ocean.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, many female deep-sea anglerfishes can swallow prey twice their size, as Maclaine shows in the video below.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2013
  • Sometimes a male anglerfish will only hang on long enough to release his sperm and fertilize the female’s eggs.
    — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Animals such as anglerfish have evolved an arsenal of tools to search out prey, like whiskery spines that detect movement.
    — Sonke Johnsen, National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Among the most iconic are deep-sea fishes like the anglerfish, whose females sport a lure of glowing flesh that acts as bait for any prey close enough to be snatched.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
  • Glowing bacteria in the bulb create the anglerfish’s light, Oceana said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 19 May 2024
  • Boehm believes that the anglerfish somehow boosts its own innate immune system to make up for the loss of the adaptive system.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 31 July 2020
  • And while female anglerfish are hard to miss, males are tragically dim in comparison—in more ways than one.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • In May, beachcombers discovered a female deep-sea anglerfish washed up on the sand in Oregon.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • Swimming around with up to six male fish permanently fused to her body, for example, is just a normal part of life for a female anglerfish.
    — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
  • The findings raise new questions about how these anglerfish that have compromised their immune systems to hang onto their mates manage to stay healthy.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • How the anglerfish ended up washing ashore on the California beach is unknown.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • An ultra-rare, bizarre anglerfish that washed ashore near San Diego is California’s third this year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the tiny male deep-sea anglerfish, which can be one-sixtieth the size of a female, clings to his partner’s belly with pincerlike teeth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Petite, stunted and devoid of glowy baubles, male anglerfish are harder to photograph and far less interesting to look at.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020

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