How to Use lungfish in a Sentence

lungfish

noun
  • Levins also has an African lungfish, though it does not get used in a lot of shows.
    — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The lungfish in Africa have wispy fins and dig into the mud to survive droughts.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2011
  • Yet with a skull like a present-day lungfish, Tiktaalik used lungs to breathe air.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Australian lungfish are primitive species with both lungs and gills.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Some present-day fish, like lungfish and bichirs, have lungs that evolved from swim bladders that help keep them afloat, per the statement.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Australian lungfish are one of the few fish species that can breathe both underwater via gills and in the air with lungs.
    — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • Steinhart’s two other lungfish were found to be about 54 and 50 years old.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Among animals, lungfish and a group of aquatic salamanders have some of the largest genomes.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • The academy has two other Australian lungfish that are younger.
    — Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Some have looked at coelacanths and sarcopterygians, or lungfish (the latter use their pelvic fins to move in a motion like walking).
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Tracing the development of these brains over time could explain much more than the evolution of the lungfish.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
  • Salamanders and a lungfish were close behind amphiuma, with the next-largest cells.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The lungfish feeds not off Spam but from its own muscle, digests itself into slime & vitamin.
    — Christina Olson, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • This feat has been observed in a wide variety of species – ranging from the African lungfish to armored catfish.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
  • And there may have also been freshwater sharks and giant lungfish that preyed on wading or drinking herbivores.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2024
  • The first vertebrate animals to crawl onto land were relatives of the modern lungfish.
    — David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • By studying lungfish of various ages—especially old ones—the team could fine-tune its lungfish-aging method and learn more about the species’ longevity.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But because the lungfish has scrawny, whiplike fins, scientists thought that the ability to walk must have evolved later in terrestrial quadrupeds.
    — Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2011
  • The second-oldest Steinhart Aquarium lungfish is at least 60 years old.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Now consider that a primordial lungfish — next of kin to the early coelacanths — gave rise to the first amphibians and, eventually, to us.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Scientists believe that Methuselah, an Australian lungfish, is about 90 years old.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2022
  • And in the cargo hold of a steamship, a young lungfish arrived from Australia to a new home at an aquarium in San Francisco.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Until a few years ago, the oldest Australian lungfish was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
    — Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Thank our wobbly planet for our seasons, which have led to remarkable adaptations in animals ranging from honeybees to lungfish.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • In other words, lungfish represent the evolutionary link between fish and amphibians.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • One Australian lungfish in particular has been around for a looooooong time, and her name is, appropriately, Methuselah.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • While turtles and crocodyliforms were familiar players, dinosaurs, lungfish, sharks, stingrays, and other animals called this prehistoric swamp home.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2012
  • The team also found that these olfactory areas actually increased in size throughout successive species of lungfish.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
  • There are striped bass, Australian lungfish, and other fish and turtles that were moved from Fells Point over a three-week period starting at the end of February.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
  • In addition to the eel pit, Tobler cares for dozens of other animals, including tortoises, lizards and an endangered Australian lungfish.
    — Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2025

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