Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

WASHINGTON (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, Colombia, ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

Genome sequencing can teach us a huge amount about a species, and now scientists have completed the sequence for one of the weirdest and most intriguing animals in the world. The Australian lungfish ...

African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more about how vertebrates made the transition from water to land, because their ...

Missing one meal can make humans restless. Missing food for a day weakens the body. But in the animal kingdom, there exists a ...

Methuselah is the oldest person mentioned in the Bible, said to have lived to be 969 years old. It may not be quite that ancient, but a primitive creature living in a San Francisco museum, named after ...

In vertebrate evolution, the transition from water to land was crucial. The extant cousin of all tetrapods, the African lungfish (Protopterus sp.), has a dual mode of existence in both aquatic and ...