The lake sturgeon, with its sleek shape and rows of bony plates on its sides ... These organs, called barbels, help the fish to locate bottom-dwelling prey, such as snails, mussels, clams ...

The fish was labeled Janusiscus after ... vertebrates would have looked somewhat more like bony fishes, at least externally, with large dermal plates covering their skulls," explained Sam Giles ...

Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections ... The reconstruction produced by the team shows that the bony ...

The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that first appeared during the Silurian with powerful jaws lined with bladelike plates ... the bony fish, were covered in scales ...

The difference between a shark and other fish: Unlike bony fish, sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletons are made of cartilage, not bone. Their skin is ...