Bony fish

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The bony fish evolved from the jawless fish about 450 million years ago. They evolved jaws about 50 million years later, developed heavy brain casing about 10 million years after this, and split into two main groups of fish: the lobe finned and the ray finned. At about the same time the shark group first appeared.