How to Use dragonfish in a Sentence

dragonfish

noun
  • Footage of the highfin dragonfish was taken at depths of nearly 1,000 feet.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2022
  • Unless, that is, you’re being hunted by a stoplight loosejaw dragonfish.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • That's good advice for most living things, but a group of creatures called the dragonfishes found an evolutionary way to break that rule.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
  • If that is not strange enough, there's also the scaleless dragonfish (Pachystomias microdon), which can emit and perceive red light.
    — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2010
  • Like human teeth, the dragonfish’s teeth have a dense inner dentin layer surrounded by an outer enamellike layer.
    — Helen Santoro, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • These voracious animals, like the threadfin dragonfish, cast searchlights through nearby waters.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe the threadfin dragonfish, with its winning smile and luminous purple photophore, will unlock the next big technological innovation.
    — Sonke Johnsen, National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Unlike the lantern-mouth angler, the longbarb scaly dragonfish, Macrostomias longibarbatus, catches its prey with a light-producing bulb at the end of a long, whip-like chin barbel.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 May 2014
  • That's why bioluminescent creatures, including krill, squid, lanternfish, and dragonfish, create their own light chemically through organs called photophores.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
  • Researchers in California recently encountered a rare deep-sea dragonfish nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean surface.
    — Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • The author-illustrator invites readers on an adventure through forests, caves and the deep sea to discover all sorts of creatures—fungi, glowworms, dragonfish, squid and more—that make their own light thanks to chemical reactions in their bodies.
    — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • At least 1,500 species of fish are known to be bioluminescent, including sharks and dragonfish—and scientists regularly discover new ones.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
  • Because most deep-sea creatures cannot see in this color, the dragonfish uses its bioluminescent organs like an infrared sniper scope to hunt, illuminating its surroundings without its prey noticing anything unusual.
    — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2010
  • Researchers collected 10 dragonfish (Aristostomias scintillans, pictured) with a fishing net.
    — Helen Santoro, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019

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