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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lungfish genome was found to be 30 times the size of human genome. The sequencing was carried out by an international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.