The polypterids (bichirs and ropefish) are extant basal actinopterygian (ray-finned) fishes that breathe air and share similarities with extant lobe-finned sarcopterygians (lungfishes and tetrapods) ...

A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published today in Nature Communications by me and a team of ichthyologists. The ...

The 100-year-old mystery surrounding how four-legged animals developed the ability to breathe air has finally been solved. Scientists claim the ability was passed down by ancient Gogonasus - a group ...

You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell, not to breathe. Sharks are fish, so they do not have lungs, either. So ...

The emergence of life from water on to land is a pivotal moment in evolutionary history, and scientists say a new discovery may shed light on how it was able to happen. Palaeontologists have verified ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A Marbled Hawkmoth (scientific name *Phyllosphingia dissimilis*) pupa releasing air through its abdominal spiracles during an ...