Sentences with phrase «living lungfish»

«It's tempting to attribute alternating impressions to something like the footfalls of an early tetrapod with digits, and yet here we've got good evidence that living lungfish can leave similar sequences of similar gait,» said Coates, PhD, professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.

Not exact matches

Shedd Aquarium is saddened to announce the passing of one of its most iconic and beloved animal residents and longest - lived of any fish in a zoological setting in the world — Granddad, a male Australia lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) who was humanely euthanized Sunday due to a rapid decline in quality of life associated with old age.

James Kirkland, a palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified it as being from a lungfish of the extinct genus Ceratodus, which lived between 160 million and 100 million years ago.

It was Charles Darwin who coined the term «living fossil» to describe extant creatures, such as the gar (another Great Lakes resident) and the lungfish, which have been present for many millions of years in the fossil record yet appear to have undergone very little anatomical change.

And the marbled lungfish — a living piece of evolutionary history with the largest genome of any animal — is also rated as of least concern, despite being commonly eaten by humans.

To answer this question, a team of Danish researchers looked at one of the closest living relatives of early land animals, the African lungfish (Protopterus annectens).

Watching a lungfish, our closest living fish relative, crawl on its four pointed fins gives us an idea of what the first evolutionary steps on land probably looked like.

«What we're seeing in lungfish is a very nice example of how bottom - walking in fish living in water can easily come about in a very tetrapod - like pattern.»