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, ...

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.

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 ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because .

Methuselah, the oldest fish living in an aquarium, was transported to California in 1938. Gayle Laird In November 1938, an Australian lungfish named Methuselah arrived at San Francisco’s Steinhart ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tiny step for the humble lungfish could represent a major leap in the evolution of life, research has shown. University of Chicago scientists have confirmed that the strange fish, which has lungs ...