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 ...

Paleontologists at the Natural History Museum recognized the remnants as belonging to a new lungfish species — named Ferganoceratodus edwardsi. The fossil suggests that many lungfish — once ...

They found that the Australian lungfish still has fins more similar to those found in fossils from the ancient lobe-finned fish from the Devonian, while the African and South American lungfish ...

“While we’re confident that the fossils indicate many different species of lungfish, we think that they all belong to the same group of close relatives, known as a genus.” Based on where ...

The earliest species are still recognisably lungfish-like and look similar to their living relatives. This long evolutionary history gives them one of the strongest claims to the title of ‘living ...