The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described, redraws the ...

Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval, ...

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WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, ...

A tiny step for the humble lungfish could represent a major leap in the evolution of life, research has shown. University of Chicago scientists have confirmed that the strange fish, which has lungs ...

Berkshire Community College's Environmental and Life Sciences program has a new resident: a young African lungfish. The lungfish (Protopterus annectens), which arrived from a Californian breeder in ...

Lungfish are thought to be related to the first creatures that crawled out of the water to colonize land . Lungfish are thought to be related to the first creatures that crawled out of the water to ...

Adult lungfish have extensive, continuously growing tooth plates on the palate and the inner side of the lower jaws, which are formed without shedding any teeth. This type of dentition is developed ...