anglerfish
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They weren’t allowed to experiment with mammals, including rats, so they isolated tissue samples from anglerfish, the carnivorous bottom-feeders with razor sharp teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
With that caveat aside, Frable observed a crucial difference between this particular anglerfish and others that surface — it looks sick.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
“Another type of anglerfish, the footballfishes, are known from individuals entering shallow water and being found barely alive or dead washed up on beaches.”
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
Finally, principal component analyses visualized how anglerfish occupied different regions of phenotypic space, shedding light on evolutionary trends in body, skull and jaw shapes.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
To evaluate evolutionary trends, the researchers applied phylogenetic comparative methods to assess phenotypic and lineage diversification, while disparity analyses quantified the extent of morphological variation across anglerfish clades and habitats.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
"Our results show how the iconic deep-sea anglerfishes evolved from ancestors that walked along the ocean floor using modified pelvic fins," says Chase D. Brownstein of Yale University.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
They focused their attention on anglerfishes, which they describe as one of the most famous and species-rich denizens of the deep sea.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Members of the vertebrate group including anglerfishes are unique in possessing a characteristic known as sexual parasitism, in which males temporarily attach or permanently fuse with females to mate.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Their analyses show that the rapid transition of ancestrally bottom-dwelling, or benthic, anglerfishes into open-ocean, or pelagic, habitats occurred during a period of major global warming 50 to 35 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
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