As you can see in this YouTube video, when their environment becomes too dry for survival, lungfish burrow deep into the ground to estivate—a process similar to hibernation. This behavior keeps ...

Found in seasonal rivers and ponds that dry up during the summer, the lungfish burrows into the mud and secretes a protective cocoon around its body. Inside this cocoon, it enters a deep state of ...

Those early innovations include the lungfish’s unusual talent for sleeping through the heat by hiding out in a burrow wrapped in a mucus cocoon. They leave just enough space for the mouth to ...

These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) have around 30 times as much DNA as humans, according to a new paper in the journal Nature, which may give us clues as to how life transitioned ...

It belongs to the South American lungfish. “It was a technical challenge, of course, to do this,” says Axel Meyer at the University of Konstanz in Germany. “It is the largest of all animal ...

Meaning, among a lot of other things, us. Since then, however, evidence has piled up that we're more closely related to lungfish, which live in freshwater and are found in Africa, Australia ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...