Sentence examples for peculiar fish from inspiring English sources

"We've often wondered, for over 100 years, what these tiny little jointed arms were used for in these very peculiar fish.

American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan described the goblin shark in an 1898 issue of Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, recognizing the peculiar fish not only as a new species, but also a new genus and family.

"They are peculiar ducks, neither fish nor fowl.

obs).. Notably, for the Guri and Cuyuni fishes, our observation of morphology indicated that something was peculiar about these fishes, while all other inferred hybrids conformed to the morphology of non-hybrid parental individuals, again suggesting a role for selection in the fate of hybrid individuals.

In the words of Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, today's Washington has become a "permanent feudal class," a massive, self-sustaining entity that sucks people in, nurtures addiction to its spoils, and imposes a peculiar psychology on big fish and minnows alike.

The cell body is not required as an intermediate between input and output because of the peculiar 'monopolar' morphology of fish tectal cells, which are reminiscent of insect neurons.

She kept talking about how crazy things were going get in a few days with the start of combat fishing — a peculiar Alaska ritual in which fisher folk stand cooler-to-cooler at the confluence of the Russian and Kenai Rivers to prey on the incredible runs of sockeye.

The peculiar ecology of annual fishes offers a complementary model system to study the effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of aging.

The fish has a peculiar profile in that the front of the body is long and narrow, whereas the rear is flat and possesses only a rudimentary, rounded tail.

We also report a peculiar genomic organization of the fish V1r1 and V1r2 genes.

cho fish develop a peculiar pigment pattern.