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, Venezuela, French Guiana ...

To find the answer to this question after such a long time, the genetic material of the closest living relatives of our Devonian ancestor—lungfish—has now been analyzed, making it possible to draw ...

Nineteenth century scientists mistakenly classified the lungfish as an amphibian, but it is now known to belong to the Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) clade. The lobe-finned fish clade – which also ...

One man’s work to reveal the ancient species of southern Africa has been recognised in the name of a new species. The fossil lungfish Ferganoceratodus edwardsi has been named in honour of Steve ...

According to a release from the researchers, the South American lungfish breaks all records for size, with its DNA having more than 90 gigabases. One gigabase is 90 billion bases.

EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 14. AUGUST 2024, 17:00 CEST (16:00 LONDON TIME, 11:00 US EASTERN TIME) Join us as we travel back in time! We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million ...

Lungfish first appeared during the Devonian Period. It was during the Devonian that one of the most important moments in the history of life on Earth occurred - when fish possessing lungs and ...

The South American lungfish reaches up to about 4 feet (1.25 meters) long. While other fish rely upon gills to breathe, lungfish also possess a pair of lung-like organs.