One of the best-documented evolutionary transitions is the appearance of tetrapods, the four-limbed vertebrates that now dominate the land. A large series of “fishapod” fossils have been discovered ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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, ...

This study is conducted by Drs. Wenjin Zhao and Min Zhu (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Drs. Xiaolin Zhang and Yan’an Shen (University of ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

PERM, June 30. /TASS/. Fossil Devonian lungfish remains have been discovered by researchers from the Russian Academy of Science’s Paleontological Institute in a limestone quarry in Russia’s Urals Perm ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in Southwest China's Yunnan province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early ...

A second ancient lungfish has been discovered in Africa, adding another piece to the jigsaw of evolving aquatic life forms more than 400 million years ago. The new fossil lungfish genus (Isityumzi ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates that eventually moved onto land. By reanalyzing mysterious fossils from ...