Scientists have sequenced the largest animal genome to date—and it belongs to an eel-like fish that breathes air. The genome of the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) takes the cake ...

However, the aptly named lungfish, which look like eels and can grow to be seven feet long, are an ancient class of fish that breathe air just like us. The earliest ancestors of lungfish emerged ...

Captain Bobo, a South American lungfish, has found a new home at the New England Aquarium ... His body is grayish-brown and long like an eel, and he undulates to the surface when he needs air.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana State University Scientists have sequenced the largest animal genome to date—and it belongs to an eel-like fish that breathes air. The genome of the South American lungfish ...