How to Use anglerfish in a Sentence

anglerfish

noun

• Male anglerfish are born with one goal: to find a mate.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
• 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
• The anglerfish has done the same thing through evolution, Boehm says.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 31 July 2020
• The second-hardest shots are of some of the deep-water anglerfish.
  — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• And yet, some male anglerfish are full-time grafts — the ultimate live-in boyfriends.
  — Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 30 July 2020
• 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
• 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 submersible the Jakobsens used to film the anglerfish has been in operation since 2013.
  — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
• Pietsch says this is only the third time deep-sea anglerfish behavior has been caught on film.
  — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cordelia Abrams, 49, a Bostonian life coach dressed as an anglerfish at the breakfast, has been attending these events for almost a decade.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• The anglerfish reminds him that happiness is inside of him.
  — Dawn Guest, star-telegram, 22 Sep. 2017
• An ultra-rare, bizarre anglerfish that washed ashore near San Diego is California’s third this year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• The finding comes just a week after a Pacific footballfish -- a deep-sea anglerfish much rarer than the lancetfish -- washed up about three miles away on Black's Beach.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• Deep-sea anglerfish are a strange and fascinating sight to behold.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Here's why anglerfish have managed to capture and keep our attention.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2019
• 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
• In March 2018, footage was captured that showed a pair of mating anglerfish floating in the deep, performing perhaps the strangest mating ritual on the planet.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2019
• 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
• How the anglerfish ended up washing ashore on the California beach is unknown.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• 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
• To come to this conclusion, Boehm and his colleagues spent the past six years conducting genetic tests on tissue samples of anglerfish taken from around the world.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 31 July 2020

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024