Deserts reward preparation. Across the world, desert animals have developed ingenious and resourceful ways to conserve every ...

Discover 7 unique animal names that start with Q. From the happiest Quokka to the ancient Quahog, explore their habitats and ...

Explore ten of the world’s shyest animals and learn what makes them so elusive. Learn about each species’ habitat, diet, and ...

From mudskippers to walking catfish to lungfish, air-breathing fish almost seem common! So to be a bizarre beast, you have to be extra weird, like gar are. We want to thank Dr. Solomon David for ...

Salinas describes her research in African lungfish – an amphibian-like species that is capable of going through estivation. The lungfish is a rarely studied organism, with scientific implications that ...

Scientists at Würzburg's Julius Maximilians University have mapped out the South American lungfish's DNA. Clocking in at around 91 billion base pairs, it is the biggest animal genome so far. The DNA ...

Before there were dinosaurs, before trees covered the land, fish were already hard at work shaping Earth’s future. They did this with a single powerful innovation: jaws. Jaws weren’t just for biting.

CHICAGO (AP) — An Australian lungfish that entranced visitors to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium for more than 80 years has been euthanized due to old age, the popular tourist attraction announced Monday.

A new study published in iScience reveals intriguing insights into the evolutionary origins of mammals through the detailed analysis of 380-million-year-old lungfish jawbones found in the Gogo fossil ...

The South American lungfish, a marvel of the scientific community, has the largest genome of any animal, researchers have found. Inhabiting the stagnant waters of South America, this freshwater ...