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

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

And, of course, the fishes we're most interested in are the lobe-finned fishes. They were the ones that were developing structures in their fins that were beginning to look like limbs.

Lobe-finned fish had rounded, fleshy fins, and they also had lungs along with their gills, which allowed them to breathe air. Advertisement. See the most-read Science stories this hour >> ...

The lobe finned fish had the right tools for terrestrial exploration. They also had good luck and good timing, You'an Zhu said. There are plenty of fish that can survive out of the water for short ...

One group branched off to become the lobe-finned fishes (like the famous coelacanth), which later spun off a group called the tetrapods. That’s us—we’re tetrapods, along with all other ...

"Elpistsostege is a kind of ancient lobe-finned fish that lived 380 million years ago, which our paper reveals is closer to the first amphibians — part of a group of four-limbed vertebrates ...

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 ...

The first land-dwelling vertebrate animals are thought to have evolved from lobe-finned fishes about 400 million years ago. These animals gave rise to the tetrapods – the group that includes ...

And, of course, the fishes we're most interested in are the lobe-finned fishes. They were the ones that were developing structures in their fins that were beginning to look like limbs.