Archive for the 'Bony Fishes' Category
Bony fish have a swim bladder, a gas filled sac. The swim bladder originates as part of the belly. The swim bladder aids in creating an equilibrium with what is going on inside the fish and the surrounding water.
Some fish have a bladder that is part of the respiratory system. It even creates a drumming [...]
The Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) may look rather frightening, but, the fish will not harm you unless it is out of water. This is rather understandable since it is out of its natural habitat. It prefers to live on rocky bottoms of the ocean floor in very deep, cold waters. Interestingly enough, they have high [...]
Numerous websites will all tell you the same thing: the blobfish is the ugliest animal in the ocean. And, yes, it could be debated, but my opinion is the only one that counts here.
So, here is some information about the ugliest animal under the sea:
The blobfish lives off the coast of Tasmania and Australia.
The body [...]
Not to be confused with the question, “What is the biggest fish in the sea?” the largest bony fish in the ocean is the ocean sunfish. The biggest fish in the sea is the whale shark, but, sharks do not have bones, they have cartilage. Cartilage is the bendy material that makes up our noses [...]
Let me start off by telling you a little known fact – flounder are born with a body type in balanced symmetry – in other words – looking like normal fish. As they continue to grow, their bodies morph to the left, or right, so their eyes and mouth are on one side. And then [...]
There are a few different answers here, depending on what type of fish we are asking about.
The most sophisticated types of fishes, the bony fishes, have a swim bladder. The fish can essentially inflate the swim bladder with gas from a special gas gland. The gas is basically just oxygen from the fish’s blood.
Bony fishes [...]
They hatch from the egg looking exactly like typical fish, swimming in the upper waters. After two weeks the bridge of the fish’s nose fades away and then one of the eyes, depending on the species, shifts to one side. The process of becoming a complete “flat” fish takes a bit of time, but, once [...]
Not really.
There is one main way to tell old a fish is while the fish is still alive. And, at that, you need to take some of its scales.
The scales are a lot like the rings of a tree. Depending on how many dark rings there are (if you were to find a scale and [...]
