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BONY FISHES - Diet & Eating Habits...Discover animal, environmental, and zoological career facts as you explore in-depth topic coverage via SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Discovery Cove's on-line information books. ... The amount of food a bony fish eats is directly related to its size, its metabolic rate, and the temperature...
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www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/bony-fish/diet....
www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/bony-fish/diet.htm
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As a group, bony fishes can eat all sizes of plants and animals, from the smallest ... The amount of food a bony fish eats is directly related to its size, ...
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www.seaworld.org/infobooks/BonyFish/diet.html
www.seaworld.org/infobooks/BonyFish/diet.html
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"The bony fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates. About 25,000 species are known, but scientists believe thousands more remain to be discovered. Fishes are important members of food chains in both marine and freshwater ecosystems, and they have developed an amazing variety of life styles and body forms.
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www.amnh.org/exhibitions/hall_tour/spectrum/18.html
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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the world's largest known bony fish (sharks and rays are cartilaginous, not bony). At least one estimate over 3000 lb. has been recorded It is found in all oceans in tropical and temperate climes, and is known to eat gelatinous zooplankton (jellyfish) and probably small fishes and algae.
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www.oceanlight.com/html/mola_mola.html
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Some Bony Fish Printouts ... ; Click on an animal to go to that printout.; For the top 25 printouts, click here. Bony Fish; Class Osteichthyes Bony fish are fish that have a skeleton made of bone. They also have teeth that are fixed onto the upper jaw.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/fish/printouts/bonyf...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/fish/printouts/bonyfish.shtml
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In turn, one of the amphibians possessed the remains of a digested bony fish that was about four inches (10 centimeters) long during life. Adults of this fish grew up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) or more.
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dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/11/28/fossil-shark-that-ate...
dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/11/28/fossil-shark-that-ate-fossil-amphibian-that-ate-fossil-bony-fish-discovered/
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2. Dogfish Sharks (Squaliformes), three families, 73 sp. Bottom dwelling deep water sharks, distributed worldwide. Bear live young and eat bony fishes, ... Most very large, eat bony fish, other sharks, squid, and marine mammals. Includes the Mako and Great White and the plankton eating Megamouth and Basking Sharks.
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www.marinebiology.org/fish.htm
www.marinebiology.org/fish.htm
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For example most fish that eat other fish (carnivores) have teeth that are designed to puncture, hold on to and cut their prey whereas most fish that eat plants (herbivores) have teeth that are more suited ... This picture shows three common types of teeth that can be found in many of the different species of bony fish.
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www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Education/Diagrams/FishTeeth.htm...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Education/Diagrams/FishTeeth.html
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Many fish are so bony they can't really be filleted or steaked, and eating them whole often requires surgical skill to avoid hundreds of teeny bones. But don't give up on these fish, which are often the tastiest around. ... Bony Fish Recipes (pike, ... Moroccan Baked Sardines; A simple North African way to eat fresh sardines.
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fishcooking.about.com/od/bonyfishrecipes/Bony_Fish_Reci...
fishcooking.about.com/od/bonyfishrecipes/Bony_Fish_Recipes_pike_shad_carp_etc.htm
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