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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A young flatfish starts life swimming near the surface, and it is symmetrical and vertically flattened just like a herring.
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Bournemouth beaches produced odd flounder at night with pout, rockling and flatfish at Friars Cliff.
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Incidentally, some species of flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.
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The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters.
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The whole skull of a bony flatfish retains the twisted and distorted evidence of its origins.
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There is not a smooth trajectory connecting these bony fish ancestors to flatfish lying on their belly.
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We see this process of moving round re-enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish .