Unlike most living fishes, the two living species of coelacanths, along with six living species of lungfishes, belong to a group known as the lobe-finned fishes. Projecting from the body on stalks ...

The animal was a so-called lobe-finned fish that lived about 375 million years ago. Named Tiktaalik rosae by its discoverers, it is a classic example of a transitional form, one that bridges the ...

We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life on our planet: a fish from the ...

Modern lungfish can breathe air using their lungs, in addition to extracting oxygen through gills like other fish. Lungfish are the closest living ancestor of early lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii ...