A South African fish has given scientists a glimpse of exactly how our ancestors took their first steps on land. Researchers have struggled to understand how ancient fish used their bodies and fins 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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ...

OTTAWA – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...