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The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill [5] ... Swordfish skeleton at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Movements and feeding
Protosphyraena: A Late Cretaceous "Swordfish" at the Oceans of Kansas website. Includes detailed taxonomic history, life restorations, bibliography, many photos of fossil remains. The most complete skeleton of Protosphyraena pernicosa yet found, on display at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center.
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Xiphiorhynchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric swordfish that lived from the Eocene until the Oligocene. [1] Unlike the modern swordfish, both the upper and lower jaws of Xiphiorhynchus were extended into blade-like points.
Species with pointed snouts were adapted to grab smaller animals. McGowan speculated that forms with protruding upper jaws, in the Eurhinosauria, would have used their pointy snouts to slash prey, as has been assumed for swordfish. The most commonly preserved gut contents in ichthyosaurs are the remains of cephalopods.
A 36-year-old surfer from Italy died after being impaled by a swordfish while surfing the waters in Indonesia.. Giulia Manfrini, a surfer from Turin, was reportedly struck in the chest by a ...
Chondrichthyes (/ k ɒ n ˈ d r ɪ k θ i iː z /; from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros) 'cartilage' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish') is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.
Tributes have been paid to an Italian surfer after she was stabbed in the chest by a swordfish and died off the western coast of Indonesia, the travel agency where she worked said this week.