How to Use lungfish in a Sentence
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Levins also has an African lungfish, though it does not get used in a lot of shows.
—Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
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Yet with a skull like a present-day lungfish, Tiktaalik used lungs to breathe air.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
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Steinhart’s two other lungfish were found to be about 54 and 50 years old.
—Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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Some, like the appropriately named lungfish, still use them to breathe air.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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Australian lungfish are primitive species with both lungs and gills.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2022
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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
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Until a few years ago, the oldest Australian lungfish was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
—Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
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The academy has two other Australian lungfish that are younger.
—Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
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Salamanders and a lungfish were close behind amphiuma, with the next-largest cells.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
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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
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The lungfish feeds not off Spam but from its own muscle, digests itself into slime & vitamin.
—Christina Olson, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
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The second-oldest Steinhart Aquarium lungfish is at least 60 years old.
—Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2022
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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
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The first vertebrate animals to crawl onto land were relatives of the modern lungfish.
—David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
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Fifty of the species were turtles, with tuataras (a kind of reptile found in New Zealand), caecilians (a limbless amphibian), and the South American lungfish rounding out the group.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
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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
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Scientists believe that Methuselah, an Australian lungfish, is about 90 years old.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2022
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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
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After Methuselah the Australian lungfish made headlines for being the oldest living aquarium fish, Jonathan the Seychelles tortoise is reminding people of his record.
—Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 31 Jan. 2022
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Studying the Australian lungfish’s huge genome could help reveal the genetic roots of adaptations that eventually allowed fishy ancestors to crawl onto land for good some 400 million years ago.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
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Elizabeth Smith, a paleontologist who has studied the opalized fossils of Lightning Ridge for decades, has seen it all: shark’s teeth, turtle bones, lungfish, pinecones, birds, marine reptiles, plus all sorts of dinosaur bones and teeth.
—Clare Watson, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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In other words, lungfish represent the evolutionary link between fish and amphibians.
—Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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The team also found that these olfactory areas actually increased in size throughout successive species of lungfish.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
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Depending on the species, African lungfish estivate after burrowing into the soil to find permanent moisture, or even secreting their own comfy mucus onesie.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2019
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