Imagine looking into a mirror and seeing a distant aquatic ancestor staring back at you. It sounds unbelievable, almost ...

Lobe-finned fishes are a group of bony fishes. It's the structure in their fins -- particularly what we call paired fins, two in the front and two in the back -- that makes them unique and ...

Qingmendous, a 409 million-year-old predatory fish provides unique insights into the early evolution of modern lobe-finned fishes. (Brian Choo/Flinders University) ...

Here's a breathtaking finding: Scientists say they’ve discovered an ancient vestigial lung in the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish that’s related to the ancient swimmer that went on to evolve ...

And the fish family reached a major splitting point. One group branched off to become the lobe-finned fishes (like the famous coelacanth), which later spun off a group called the tetrapods.

A research team led by Prof. HE Shunping from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered through genome sequencing that the non-teleost ray-finned fishes ...

But we humans, along with bears, lizards, hummingbirds and Tyrannosaurus rex, are actually lobe-finned fish. It might sound bizarre but the evidence is in our genes, anatomy and in fossils.

Prehistoric lobe-finned fishes like Tiktaalik were anatomically very close to the earliest known tetrapods (four-legged animals), the first backboned critters to invade land some 360 million years ...

A coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," was spotted in eastern Indonesia in a rare sighting of a species once believed to be extinct.

Lobe-finned fishes are a group of bony fishes. It's the structure in their fins -- particularly what we call paired fins, two in the front and two in the back -- that makes them unique and ...