Alert reader Christine Eckel, a former Helena resident who is a clinical associate professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, wrote after this column published to provide more information ...

Thousands of species of fish utilized varying patterns of dermal armor, composed of bone and/or a substance called dentine, an important component of modern human teeth.

A giant sunfish believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, weighing a whopping 2,744 kilograms (3 tons).

The nickname 'platypus fish' stems from the fish's long beak, which resembles that of its mammal namesake, but the comparisons stop there. When paleontologist Gavin Young pulled several fossil ...

Weighing in at roughly 6,050 pounds—the size of a large SUV—the fish was 882 pounds heavier than the reigning bony fish world record-holder, a 5,070-pound sunfish discovered off the coast of ...

The team thousands of tiny skeletal fragments to reconstruct F. renovata, which show that it is a is a funky fish with an external bony “armor” and multiple pairs of fin spines.

A giant sunfish believed to be the world's heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, weighing a whopping 2,744 kilograms (3 tons).