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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Bichir, pronounced “be-sheer,” are considered living fossil fish. Also known as “dinosaur eels,” these fish have many unique features. Read on to learn everything you need to know about what makes ...

Scientists examining an unusual African fish that can walk and breathe air think they've learned a thing or two about how our distant ancestors made the leap from the oceans to terra firma some 400 ...

The ability of ferocious land animals to bite prey evolved in ancient fish, a new study finds. Fish predominantly capture prey with suction, which can be seen by watching a goldfish constantly ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unusual species of fish that can walk and breathe air shows that these animals may be more capable of adapting to life on land than previously thought, researchers say. The new findings may help ...

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 ...

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 ...