Sometimes a fish out of water really can do better on land! Scientists studying a strange fish called a bichir from riverbanks in Africa have found that when they raise these so-called dragon fish in ...

The polypterids (bichirs and ropefish) are extant basal actinopterygian (ray-finned) fishes that breathe air and share similarities with extant lobe-finned sarcopterygians (lungfishes and tetrapods) ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of a year-long series commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the Marine Biological Laboratory's affiliation with the University of Chicago. “Inelegant” is a ...

(Phys.org) —In a major evolutionary discovery, Flinders University palaeontologist Professor John Long (pictured) has found evidence to show that four-legged animals first developed the ability to ...

About 400 million years ago a group of fish began exploring land and evolved into tetrapods – today's amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. But just how these ancient fish used their fishy bodies ...

In 2011, Jeff Graham, a popular and highly respected physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, submitted a paper to a major scientific journal describing the peculiar ...

The emergence of life from water on to land is a pivotal moment in evolutionary history, and scientists say a new discovery may shed light on how it was able to happen. Palaeontologists have verified ...

There have been fish and fossils found with leg-like fins, but now scientists have raised such animals themselves. Three researchers raised a fish called Polypterus, also known as Bichir, to learn ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published last week in Nature ...

A new view of evolution is being put forward by an Ottawa biologist, thanks to an African fish that can leave the water and crawl on land. The little Polypterus fish isn’t pretty, but it has a special ...

The evolution of terrestrial locomotion in vertebrates required the appearance of new behaviours and supporting appendicular structures 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. The skeletal changes included the origin of ...