How to Use bony fish in a Sentence

bony fish

noun

• It is considered the longest bony fish in the world by Guinness World Records.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• And while whales are famous for their songs and sounds, almost 990 species of bony fish have been shown to actively produce sounds.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Otoliths are the hard structures located behind the brain of bony fishes, according to the FWC.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020
• In the video, Wheaton, a veterinarian, and his board appear tiny compared to the colossal bony fish.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
• Maybe the tetrapods, sharks and bony fish would have outcompeted their rivals anyway.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2021
• Despite being the largest bony fish in the world and weighing more than two tons, sunfish are quite elusive, which made the four-year search difficult.
  — Hannah Lang, National Geographic, 20 July 2017
• This may explain why bony fish genomes have evolved more rapidly than those of their terrestrial cousins.
  — Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018
• Sharks have more in common with human reproduction than that of bony fish, such as goldfish.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 9 July 2021
• Meanwhile, the surviving types of fish, such as sharks and bony fish, began to proliferate.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the water, sharks, dolphins, rays and certain bony fish have electroreception.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• As the sharks tear the 8-foot swordfish apart, a large bony fish known as a wreckfish creeps out from behind the researchers' remotely controlled vehicle and grabs a shark in its mouth.
  — Fox News, 9 July 2019
• Sunfish are one of the heaviest bony fish in the world and can weigh up to 2.5 tons, according to National Geographic.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2021
• Mermen, unicorns and the hoodwinker The hoodwinker is one of five different species of sunfish, which include the world’s heaviest bony fish.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
• It’s also been documented in snakes, lizards, sharks, rays, and bony fish—both in captivity and more recently in the wild.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Take the coelacanth, a bony fish that was thought to have become extinct millions of years ago but was found in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a fishing trawler.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• For hundreds of years scientists have only been able to guess that sharks probably had some bony fish ancestors.
  — Erin Biba, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• Unlike the typical scales found on bony fishes, which are thin and overlapping, dermal denticles are hard and tooth-like in structure.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But truly massive bony fish like L. problematicus all died out.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• Their diet favors bony fish and smaller sharks (including their fellow bull sharks), as well as turtles, birds, dolphins and crustaceans.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 July 2023
• To know for sure, Tosches said that researchers will need to use single-cell RNA sequencing on primitive bony fish species or other amphibians that are still alive today.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Determining a bony fish's age can be easily done by analyzing their otoliths, or ear stones.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• The presence of shark relatives at the site suggests that the split between cartilaginous and bony fish had already occurred by the early Silurian, Dr. Friedman said.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• More than 90 percent of all fish are bony fish; the category excludes rays, sharks and other marine wildlife with cartilaginous skeletons.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• As with most bony fishes, elasmobranchs (sharks and their relatives) are known to host numerous ecto- and endoparasite species.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• A few years back, a popular tourism website mentioned that the area was a great place to snorkel with seahorses, sparking fears among researchers that incoming visitors could destroy parts of the bony fish’s habitats.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2020
• In Nussbaum’s view, all mammals fall within this category; so too do bony fish and birds; insects can go either way; corals, jellyfish, and sponges don’t qualify.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• In Nussbaum’s view, all mammals fall within this category; so too do bony fish and birds; insects can go either way; corals, jellyfish, and sponges don’t qualify.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Scientists have known for years about bony fish, sharks, worms, jellies, corals, and other marine creatures that light up to attract mates, lure prey, or discombobulate predators.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• Scientists have long struggled to explain why bony fishes are so small: The heaviest—the ocean sunfish—is just 2.3 metric tons, but cartilaginous fishes like whale sharks can weigh up to 34 metric tons.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 29 May 2018
• But the team didn’t find evidence of lungs in the placoderms, suggesting that bony fish evolved lungs later and independently, write Long and Trinajstic in The Conversation.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024