Sentence examples for primitive fish from inspiring English sources

Fish may have evolved from a creature similar to a coral-like Sea squirt, whose larvae resemble primitive fish in important ways.

Tiktaalik looked like a primitive fish crossed with early four-legged animals.

In more primitive fish, the bony part of what is called the hyomandibula is large and shaped like a boomerang.

The primitive fish mouth straining for water and finding it as my son releases it in the shallows.

Dr. Neil H. Shubin of Chicago, the leader of the research team, described the animal as "a mosaic of primitive fish and derived amphibian".

This primitive fish, whose eggs make the world's most coveted caviar, was in perilous decline after years of overfishing and loss of habitat.

The gall bladders of primitive fishes contract when treated with mammalian cholecystokinin.

In primitive fishes the cells responsible for secreting the pancreatic hormones are scattered within the wall of the intestine.

Primitive fishes usually had thick bony plates or thick scales in several layers of bone, enamel, and related substances.

Primitive fishing villages perched on shallow banks, some of them flooded and abandoned because our visit coincided with the biggest flood for 20 years.

The remarkable proliferation of primitive fishes, which has given the period the name the "Age of Fishes," occurred in both fresh and marine waters.