WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

A team of scientists has broken a new record for sequencing the largest animal genome to date – the Australian lungfish, one of the few living relatives of the first land vertebrates. The genome ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The longest genome of all the animals on Earth belongs not to a giant, or a cognitively advanced critter, but a writhing, ...

Genome sequencing can teach us a huge amount about a species, and now scientists have completed the sequence for one of the weirdest and most intriguing animals in the world. The Australian lungfish ...

An Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) at the Haus des Meeres in Vienna, Austria. IMP / Schedl. New research suggests the Australian lungfish has the largest genome of any animal ever ...