The Australian lungfish, for example, still has the limb-like fins that once enabled its relatives to move on land. In today's other lungfish species from Africa and South America, these fins ...

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The researchers analyzed the genomes of modern lungfish to figure out how the ancient lobe-finned fish managed to make the swap from water to land all those millions of years ago. The researchers ...

are the closest living relatives to that ancient species that learned it could breath both in water via gills and on land with a set of lungs (hence the name lungfish). Now, on the surface ...

Those early tetrapods evolved to leave the water and live on land during the Devonian Period, between 419 million and 359 million years ago. Among fish, lungfish are the closest relatives to humans.

Those digits present in the lungfish fin eventually evolved into fingers and toes in tetrapods. "Tetrapod ancestors conquered land with limbs that evolved from fins, and were breathing air through ...

The Australian lungfish, for example, still has articulated fins that once enabled its ancestors to move on land. In African and South American species, these fins have reverted to thread-like ...

Lungfish, as the name suggests ... That skill came in handy when these fish decided to drag themselves up on land, eventually becoming tetrapods: the four-footed animals that encompass all ...