Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...
Mass Effect 4 may be the next chapter in BioWare's iconic series, but in many ways it seems to be calling back to the franchise's past. The trailer released at The Game Awards 2020 hinted at a return ...
A fish species known as the Great Blue Spotted Mudskipper that inhabits tidal mudflats in the Sea of Ariake in Kyushu has made the Red List of threatened wildlife issued by the International Union for ...
Are there fish that walk on land? Amphibious fish certainly can. Learn what the mudskipper — the most extreme of all amphibious fish — can teach us about evolution. While being a "fish out of water" ...
Hundreds of millions of years ago, our fishy ancestors dragged themselves out of the water and diversified into all the vertebrates on Earth—everything from lizards to primates to humans. But one ...
A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have zeroed in on an amphibious fish species to better understand the evolutionary pressures that molded blinking in land-dwelling ...
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Up close with the Atlantic mudskipper

While exploring a rocky coastline, I spotted an Atlantic mudskipper (Periophthalmus barbarus) resting above the water. It ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The unusual looking mudskipper has a startling face, and a ...
The water-to-land transition during the Devonian period is one of the most significant events in the evolutionary history of vertebrates and led to the emergence of tetrapods, the most successful ...
The mudskipper is a fascinating animal, in that it's a fish that both swims in the water and crawls on the land. It's probably not unlike the prehistoric fishes that first ventured out of the ocean, ...
My four-year-old son’s hurried footsteps betray his excitement. “There, Daddy! There it is!” he cries. Impatient, he lets go of my hand and runs ahead. We are looking at a 25-ft long mudskipper ...