Closer Than They Look—but Not to Bony Fish. Story by Annette Uy • 2w. I magine swimming in the deep blue, shadows gliding effortlessly beneath you—sleek, powerful, and mysterious.

It was 10.6 feet long and weighed about 6,050 pounds, according to the research paper, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology.It became the heaviest bony fish ever documented ...

This beats out the previous bony fish record holder, another bump-head sunfish caught off the coast of Japan in 1996 that tipped the scales at more than 2.5 tons (2,300 kilograms).

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

The research maps biofluorescence across 459 glowing fish species and shows just how varied the colors have become.

Their study found a very thin mucus layer on shark skin that is chemically different from that of bony fish. The shark mucus is less acidic, almost neutral, and turns out to be more chemically ...

That skin, along with the ocean pressure, keeps the blobfish’s shape. ... Most bony fish have gas bladders, which are simply gas-filled organs, to help keep them buoyant.

The last bony fish recorded anywhere near that size was a female of the same species caught in Japan in 1996 that weighed around 5,070 pounds and measured roughly 8.9 feet across.

We don’t look like fish, move like fish, breathe underwater like fish, or (this is probably for the best) smell like fish, but somehow, even if they are used for different types of motions, our ...