“It looks like a placoderm with a bony fish grin.” Here’s a brief history of the early fish family tree and its human connection: Scientists think that some sea creatures grew ...

This fish certainly tipped the scales. A monster, nearly 3-ton sunfish found dead off Portugal has weighed in as the heaviest bony fish ever discovered. While the oceanic behemoth was discovered ...

(1) The hyoid gill-slit. It is commonly accepted that in all living fishes there is no sign of a ventral part of the hyoid (facial) gill slit, that the latter has vanished entirely, and that all ...

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However, their skepticism lifted the moment they laid eyes on the fish. It was the biggest bony fish they had ever seen. In fact, it might have been the biggest anyone had ever seen. Weighing just ...

A 6,000-pound sunfish was discovered off the coast of Portugal last year – and scientists now say it is the heaviest bony fish in the world. Researchers with Atlantic Naturalist Association were ...

An ancient 'armoured fish' skull found in Mongolio has changed the way scientists think about shark skeletons - suggesting they may have evolved from bony fish. The discovery of the 410 ...

Sharks are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletons are made from cartilage rather than bone. It is generally thought this type of skeleton evolved before bony ones, suggesting sharks split ...

A giant, ocean sunfish weighing more than 6,000 pounds was found in Portugal and the fish has posthumously set a world record for being the largest bony fish known to man, according to a recent ...

The giant oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was spotted floating — dead — just off San Diego, only the 20th such fish to wash up along the California coast since the early 1900s ...