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n. - Small aquatic animal having rows of luminous organs along each side.

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  • 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.
  • New species that typically avoid ice, such as Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins, and lanternfish are moving into the habitat.
  • That's the phenomenon that lets lightning bugs, lanternfish and other creatures illuminate themselves with their own body chemistry.
  • 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.
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