Last December a lungfish from a pond in British East Africa was placed in a large tin ... of barking noise by rapidly expelling air from its lungs. When placed in a tank it soon became spry ...

"This is the first fossil lungfish found in the Urals. These prehistoric animals had both gills and lungs and could extract ... the present day and now live in Africa, Australia and South America.

and African lungfishes," the researchers wrote in the paper. Modern lungfish can breathe air using their lungs, in addition to extracting oxygen through gills like other fish. Lungfish are the ...