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 ...

Old Fish Fossil Suggests That Humans Don't Share a Common Ancestor With Sharks, Claim Researchers In 2015, researchers claimed that the last common ancestor shared by all jawed vertebrates wasn't ...

A Volusia County sheriff's deputy came to the aid of a massive mola mola in danger of dying when the fish became trapped in ...

Japanese researchers said they have taken images of a 2.5-meter-long yokozuna slickhead, possibly the world’s largest known deep-sea bony fish. The scientists, primarily from the Japan Agency ...

Mola mola, also known as ocean sunfish, “are the world’s largest bony fish,” reaching up to 5,000 pounds, the National Park Service says. “They are oddly shaped, commonly described to look like half a ...

Deputies said they identified the fish as a Mola Mola, also known as an ocean sunfish. The Mola Mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet vertically, 10 feet ...

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 ...