The specimen was also nearly a thousand pounds heavier than the previous Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest bony fish—another sunfish of the same species, Mola alexandrini ...

Synovial joints are known to be present in jawed but not jawless fish. This left the question of whether they are just a feature of bony skeletons in general or if they are also found in fish with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bony fish, or teleosts, represent some 96% of the world’s marine fish species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global reference ...

Bony fish have rocks in their heads called otoliths. Sharks and rays, which don't have bones, don't have otoliths. "Otoliths are part of the fish's inner ear, allowing fish to hear and sense ...

Now, using sturgeon fish, a new study finds that a specific population of stem cells, called trunk neural crest cells, are responsible for the development of bony scutes in fish. The work was ...

The rare finding offers new insights into the evolution of extinct bony fish related to the salmon. Researchers used imaging technology to peer into the skull of the fossil. A 319-million-year-old ...

A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The giant sunfish, weighing a little more than 3 tons ...

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 ...

A bulbous corpse found bobbing off a tiny island in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever measured. The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than it is long ...

(CNN) - The heaviest bony fish was discovered in the Azores Archipelago, in Portugal. The giant, 3-ton sunfish was found dead, floating near Faial Island in December, but the details of the ...