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Origin of devilfish
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Trapping wild devilfish could support modest demand, he says, but to scale up, they might ultimately need to be farmed—carefully.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 7, 2022
A devilfish painted by Georg Forster in the 1770s.Credit:
From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018
The projected Boulder Dam would protect the Imperial Valley, which is below sealevel, from catastrophic extremes of flood and drought, the Colorado's "devilfish" tendencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the spear was thrown and struck a devilfish, the head came loose from the shaft.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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