Sometimes a fish out of water really can do better on land! Scientists studying a strange fish called a bichir from riverbanks in Africa have found that when they raise these so-called dragon fish in ...

Watch as the Polypterus senegalus fish uses its fins and body to move across a sandy surface. Fins are planted one after the other to lift the head and anterior body, and the tail and body are used to ...

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An unusual species of fish that can walk and breathe air shows that these animals may be more capable of adapting to life on land than previously thought, researchers say. The new findings may help ...

A Polypterus senegalus fish walks across a sandy substrate. The bichir fish use their fins and body together to move across land, but they’re better at it if they’re raised outside of water, a study ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Diplogyrodactylus martini n. g. et sp., a viviparous monogenean, is described from the gills of gray bichir Polypterus senegalus Cuvier, 1829, ...

An unusual species of fish that can walk and breathe air shows that these animals may be more capable of adapting to life on land than previously thought, researchers say. The new findings may help ...

Raising fish on land seems like the sort of idea you’d get while recovering from general anesthesia. But for three McGill University researchers, it made perfect sense. How else would you find out ...

A team of MIT engineers is hoping to develop tomorrow’s body armor today with a fish whose family tree stretches back 96 million years. Called the Polypterus senegalus, or “dinosaur eel” to layman ...

Knowledge of the structure–property–function relationships of dermal scales of armoured fish could enable pathways to improved bioinspired human body armour, and may provide clues to the evolutionary ...

African fish that have trolled for prey in murky freshwater pools for nearly 100 million years sport the best of the best in body armor. Now a team of engineers has dissected the aquatic armor, ...