Sentence examples for most ancient fish from inspiring English sources

The honored list includes the breeding grounds of the world's last healthy population of grey whales, the highest density of ancestral polar-bear dens, and home of the world's most ancient fish and the marine iguana.

Sturgeon is one of the most ancient fish in the world and belongs to the order Acipenseriformes that contains 27 species divided into two families i.e. Acipenseridae (sturgeon, 25 species) and Polydontidae (paddlefish, two species).

These complex facial bones are characteristic of bony fish and land animals, including humans, making this bizarre-looking fish the most ancient animal with what humans would recognize as a face, Zhu said.

Bichirs are extant representatives of the most ancient branch of ray-finned fishes, diverging from the rest of Actinopterygii prior to the whole genome duplication specific of teleosts [ 26].

Atlantic herring belongs to the Clupeomorph group, one of the most ancient groups of teleost (bony) fishes, the group which sustains all of the largest and most important marine fisheries.

Valliculture, as the practice is called in view of its being fish culture-based, is one of the most ancient forms of aquaculture in the Mediterranean region.

Among the ruins is evidence of an ancient fish factory, where anchovies from local waters were most likely preserved in salt.

Present results first reporting cells with immunohistochemical and structural characteristics of OECs in a cartilaginous fish indicate that ensheathing glia is already present in the most ancient radiation of jawed vertebrates.

Sturgeons (order: Acipenseriformes, infraclass: Chondrostei) are a very ancient fish group distributed in the Palearctic hemisphere with about 25 species, most of which are considered to be on the brink of extinction [ 1].

The chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays) have often been suggested to possess the most ancient example of a distinct pancreas with both hormonal (endocrine) and digestive (exocrine) roles.

The greatest and most ancient of all the mass fisheries, the fantastic swarming of cod off Newfoundland that European fleets fished for at least 500 years, was finally closed in 1992.