Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been ...

As Sharma and her team found, cartilaginous fish with jaws, such as the skate embryos they studied, do develop these joints, while jawless fish, such as lampreys and hagfish, lack them.

Skates are cartilaginous fish that can flourish in benthic ecosystems thanks to their wing-like pectoral fins. This unique trait, however, remains unknown on a molecular level. Where did these ...

In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; ... L. longirostris' claspers allowed us to show what genus it belongs to. The snout, ...

Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis has been provided by new fossils of a ray-like shark ...

Found off New Zealand, the species adds crucial knowledge about this little-known and odd-looking group of deep-sea fish ANIMALS Newly discovered spookfish shines light on mysterious ghost sharks ...

Twelve out of seventeen cartilaginous fish genomes studied contained genes for the taste receptors type 2, with only one T2R gene present in each species. The researchers named this single gene T2R1.