Leedsichthys is an extinct genus of pachycormid fish that lived in the oceans of the Middle to Late Jurassic. [1] It was the largest ray-finned fish, and amongst the largest fish known to have ever …

Leedsichthys, a giant Jurassic pachycormid This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to …

The jaws of a megalodon, likely the biggest cartilaginous fish of all time Life restoration of the extinct Leedsichthys, one of the largest bony fish to have ever lived Fish vary greatly in size. …

Pages in category "Creatures described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea …

The contents of medieval bestiaries were often obtained and created from combining older textual sources and accounts of animals, such as the Physiologus. [9] Medieval bestiaries contained …

This is a list of medieval bestiaries. The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James [1] and revised by Florence McCulloch in 1959–1962. In the …

The word Coelacanth is an adaptation of the Modern Latin Cœlacanthus ('hollow spine'), from the Ancient Greek κοῖλ-ος (koilos, 'hollow') and ἄκανθ-α (akantha, 'spine'), [14] referring to the …