anglerfishes
- plural of anglerfish.
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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
"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
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
