Remember the yellow-bellied sap-sucking ground-dwelling Himalayan nighthawk?
The study, published in June in The Journal of Heredity, analyzed and compared DNA sequences from 233 species and used the results to create a new family tree for spiny-rayed fishes. That group includes many types of toadfish, scorpionfish (lionfish are a type of scorpionfish), surgeonfish, rabbitfish, jacks, stargazers and saber-toothed blennies.
--NYT article about venomous fish.
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Later, the article says that the proper term for a sting is an "envenomation."
This is a good time for me to harp on my fave subject: (mis)use of science terms in literary academia. I can totally see "A Study of the Envenomation of Blake and the Miltonic Reagent." Or something.
What a trove of great 1880s insults. You, sir, are a toadfish. I do not know you.
I thought the researcher featured in the article was kinda cute. yeah.
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