The lungfish is called so because it actually has lungs, unlike most other fish species, a characteristic it retained from its ancestors who could move and breathe on land. The freshwater fish ...

The lungfish is an incredibly unique and resilient fish that has developed lungs to extract oxygen from the air. However, like other fish, it still requires water to survive. As you can see in ...

Modern lungfish can breathe air using their lungs, in addition to extracting oxygen through gills like other fish. Lungfish are the closest living ancestor of early lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii ...

While other fish rely upon gills to breathe, lungfish also possess a pair of lung-like organs. It lives in oxygen-starved, swampy environs of the Amazon and Parana-Paraguay River basins ...

Methuselah, a female Australian lungfish tanked at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, is at least 92 years old, the academy said in a press release. "Cutting-edge DNA analysis" estimated ...

Fotokon/ Shutterstock. The lungfish also have a range of abilities that set them apart from many other fish, including swim bladders that function as lungs. This allows the handful of living species, ...

Native only to two river systems in Australia, this type of lungfish can actually breathe air. They use a single lung when the streams they live in are more dry than usual or when the water ...