Lanternfish

Students travelled to the garbage patch to take samples, and found bits of plastic in the digestive systems of small fish such as lanternfish and hatchetfish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

First described around 500 B.C. by the Greek philosopher Anaximenes, bioluminescence is familiar by its sight - if not its name - to children catching fireflies and to divers entranced by lanternfish and other sea life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's the phenomenon that lets lightning bugs, lanternfish and other creatures illuminate themselves with their own body chemistry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A marine biologist with a doctorate from Stanford on the nervous system of a type of lanternfish, in 1973 Ray was appointed by President Nixon to chair the Atomic Energy Commission and was subsequently elected governor of Washington State. ❋ [email protected] (Guardian: Clive Hamil (2010)

"If tuna is eating a lot of lanternfish, it is indirectly ingesting the plastic that might be in the lanternfish's stomach," Davison said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The scientists told the nonprofit online news site that about 5-10 percent of the fish they studied -- "mainly small swimmers common in the deep ocean, like lanternfish and hatchetfish" had consumed the tiny plastic particles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But he is lying deeper than a lanternfish and until England can winch their No10 to within half a mile of the gain-line there is no point in worrying about anything beyond. ❋ Eddie Butler (2010)