Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Mudskippers, amphibious fish dwelling in mudflats from Africa to South America, possess unique adaptations enabling them to thrive on land. They breathe through their skin and mouth linings, move ...

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, ...

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 ...

A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh traveled to Java to research the mudskipper, a mysterious species of fish that’s capable of using its pectoral fins like legs to walk on land and ...

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 ...