Meet The World’s Oldest Captive Fish—Alive Since 1938 At This Aquarium
Australian lungfish are known to be ultra-survivors, but this lungfish is pushing the boundaries even for its own kind. At ...
6 Ancient Fish That Have Both Gills And Lungs—And Survive Today In These Freshwater Habitats
Lungfish’ would have been a common sight in the Devonian period, about 400 million years ago. Remarkably, six species of this ...
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These Tiny Fish Will Assess Themselves in a Mirror Before Taking on a Foe
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse are small, territorial fish that aggressively fend off intruders. But when they have access to a ...
Ancient Fish Baffles Scientists
A 50-million-year-old fish is baffling scientists, who have no idea where it sits on the evolutionary tree. It doesn’t match ...
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Mirror, mirror, in my tank, who's the biggest fish of all?
Researchers have demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) checked their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than ...
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Ancient relative of 'living fossil' fish reveals that geological activity supercharges evolution
The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...
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Cleaner fish precisely realize their body size
According to an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research group, a bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check ...