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, ...

Have you ever heard of a fish that breathes air and “hibernates” to survive? The lungfish is an incredibly unique and resilient fish that has developed lungs to extract oxygen from the air. However, ...

CHICAGO - 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.

Like a naughty pet Labrador, the Australian lungfish has little restraint when it comes to food. "We had 360 sqm of aquatic ...

The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described, redraws the ...

Methuselah is a 90-year-old, 4-foot-long, 40-pound, Australian lungfish that resides at the California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

New research on the fin development of the Australian lungfis elucidates how fins evolved into limbs with hands with digits. The main finding is that in lungfish a primitive hand is already present, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. ‘Lungfish’ would have been a common sight in the Devonian ...

An Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) at the Haus des Meeres in Vienna, Austria. IMP / Schedl. New research suggests the Australian lungfish has the largest genome of any animal ever ...

This scaly world-record breaker looks much younger than she is. Or so scientists say. The approximate age of the oldest-known aquarium fish housed at a San Francisco Bay Area aquarium for the past 85 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicago aquarium euthanizes more than 90-year-old lungfish CHICAGO (AP) — An Australian lungfish that entranced visitors to ...