our Fossil Fish Curator. ‘Being light and more flexible than bone, cartilage means sharks can typically swim faster than bony fish.’ Cartilage is about half as dense as bone. Sharks don’t have the ...

so-called because cartilage formed their skeletons, later gave rise to sharks and rays. They had small, rough scales, fixed fins, and sharp, replaceable teeth. The second group, the bony fish ...

Bony Tony is regularly dressed up and had racing silks donated by a jockey for the Cheltenham Races A life-sized skeleton taken from outside a clinic has been found sitting on a sofa in a Father ...

Goetze: Two types of regional fishes are considered primitive and have existed in freshwater systems for millions of years.

Focus: Understanding how the morphological development of bony fishes has changed over evolutionary time We study the morphological development of bony fishes, and how it has changed over evolutionary ...

Unlike most modern fish, paddlefish have skins with few scales, skeletons made almost wholly ... Though most modern bony fish have symmetrical tails (the top and bottom lobes are the same size ...

Unlike bony fish, sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletons are made of cartilage, not bone. Their skin is covered with denticles, tooth-like scales that ...

Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake sturgeon is one of 27 species of sturgeon, a family of bony fish that found around the world that first appears in the fossil record more than 200 million ...

Bony Tony is regularly dressed up and had racing silks donated by a jockey for the Cheltenham Races A life-sized skeleton, which is dressed up for different occasions, has been stolen from outside ...

We've all been there: One moment, you're devouring a whole fish and the next, a bone has maneuvered its way into your throat.

Two Oakland County cities have a bone to pick with the Halloween season — or several. The downtown areas in Northville and Berkley are both full of skeletons throughout the month of October.

Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including: bony fish, Osteichthyes; cartilaginous fish, Chondrichthyes; and jawless fish, Agnatha. The discipline can include the ...