Its favorite meals include large, slippery prey like lungfish, tilapia, and catfish. Shoebills will also snack on frogs, snakes, young crocodiles, and even baby turtles if the opportunity arises. A ...

Researchers found that the South American lungfish has 90 billion base pairs in its genetic code thanks to “jumping genes,” which have continued to expand the length of the fish’s sequence ...

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have ...

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, Venezuela, French Guiana ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina ...

The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval, air-breathing fish that "hops" onto land from the water using weird, limb-like fins. The fish's DNA code ...

Scientists have sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today's land vertebrates were able to conquer land.

Want to read more? Check out our stories here. Ferganoceratodus edwardsi, named after Edwards, is a new species of lungfish that lived around 210 million years ago, according to the release.

Salsburg often sang his daughter to sleep when she was a baby; eventually, he realized he could play guitar with one hand while holding her in his other arm. While singing her Lungfish’s “The ...