12 Days of FISHMAS! Day Five!

Day five of the Twelve Days of Fishmas! Day four can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On the fifth day of Fishmas cladistics gave to me... FIVE! BOH-NY TONGUES! Four elopomorphs Three Holosteans Two Chondrostei And a bichir at the base of Actinopterygii Five is so allowed! Day five is the Osteoglossomorpha, the bonytongues. As a group they are generally pretty familiar, with a broad range of morphologies, habitats and sizes (including one…

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Vault Tales 180 Run the Set Colorata Endangered Species Fossil Fish Box (2nd version)

Today I'm going to look at another Colorata set, one of the most exciting ones to me! This is the Endangered Species Fossil Fish box. Specifically, the second released version, from about 2010 or 2011--I got it in late 2011 and probably didn't wait very long! And why didn't I wait very long? Because it was only the second time a bichir had been made as figure! Except that the set has already been released several years earlier (2003 or…

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