How to Use lungfish in a Sentence

lungfish

noun

• The lungfish in Africa have wispy fins and dig into the mud to survive droughts.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2011
• Levins also has an African lungfish, though it does not get used in a lot of shows.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Yet with a skull like a present-day lungfish, Tiktaalik used lungs to breathe air.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Steinhart’s two other lungfish were found to be about 54 and 50 years old.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Some, like the appropriately named lungfish, still use them to breathe air.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 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
• 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
• Australian lungfish are primitive species with both lungs and gills.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 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
• Until a few years ago, the oldest Australian lungfish was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
  — Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
• The academy has two other Australian lungfish that are younger.
  — Haven Daley, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
• Salamanders and a lungfish were close behind amphiuma, with the next-largest cells.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 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
• The lungfish feeds not off Spam but from its own muscle, digests itself into slime & vitamin.
  — Christina Olson, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• The second-oldest Steinhart Aquarium lungfish is at least 60 years old.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 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
• 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
• The first vertebrate animals to crawl onto land were relatives of the modern lungfish.
  — David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Scientists believe that Methuselah, an Australian lungfish, is about 90 years old.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024