Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

The West African lungfish has been found to walk on its fins, according to a new study. While other fish are known to stroll—and some even have "hands" (pictures)—this is the first time the ...

[Photos: The Freakiest-Looking Fish] You may ... In the footage, a group of people dig up oblong lungfish cocoons from dry earth, tearing the structures open to reveal the damp and wriggling ...

210-million-year-old fossilized remains of a lungfish species have been unearthed in Zimbabwe. This was the time when continents were all joined and dinosaurs began to emerge during the Triassic ...

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 ...

Methuselah, a female Australian lungfish tanked at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, is at least 92 years old, the academy said in a press release. "Cutting-edge DNA analysis" estimated ...

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 ...

CHICAGO - An Australian lungfish that entranced visitors to Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium for more than 80 years has been euthanized due to old age, the popular tourist attraction announced Monday.