Bony fish - fish that have a bony skeleton and belong to the class osteichthyes.

With them came two injured strangers and a wild, bony skeleton of a male in tattered, grubby furs.

"There isn't enough calcium in the ecosystem to allow for full bony skeletons," Eviku explained to her in his slow, thoughtful voice.

Shad has an extremely bony skeleton, with extra rows of bones that are difficult to remove.

Palaeoniscidae is a family of fish who possessed a bony skeleton and operculum.

Not all of those showcased are the same: Vertebrates have bony internal skeletons known as endoskeletons (inside the body).

Bony fishes, class Osteichthyes, are characterised by bony skeleton rather than cartilage.

They have replaced a bony skeleton with one of cartilage and possess a few large bony plates instead of scales.

Unlike most fish, the scientist explained, sharks do not have bony skeletons; theirs are made of cartilage, which is relatively flexible.

But the fossil record shows that fishes with bony skeletons had evolved long before sharks appeared on the evolutionary scene.