Berkshire Community College's Environmental and Life Sciences program has a new resident: a young African lungfish. The lungfish (Protopterus annectens), which arrived from a Californian breeder in ...

African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more about how vertebrates made the transition from water to land, because their ...

(Phys.org) —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 by ...

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, ...

Researchers find that the molecular mechanisms underlying tail regeneration in West African lungfish are similar to those seen in amphibians, suggesting the trait evolved in a common ancestor. For ...

An extinct species of lungfish discovered in Zimbabwe could mark the beginnings of a sea change in our understanding of the animals. Close examination of Ferganoceratodus edwardsi suggests that many ...

For most vertebrates, losing a limb is permanent, but a lucky few species -- such as salamanders and tadpoles -- have the ability to completely regrow complex body parts. Understanding the molecular ...

Missing one meal can make humans restless. Missing food for a day weakens the body. But in the animal kingdom, there exists a ...

The presence of all five enzymes of the ornithine-urea cycle has been demonstrated in the liver of the African lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus. Levels of activity of the rate-limiting enzymes, ...

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 ...