Barred bichir (scientific name Polypterus delhezi). These fish have a grayish body containing green or occasionally yellow spots and appear similar to ornate bichir.

A Polypterus senegalus fish walks across a sandy substrate. The bichir fish use their fins and body together to move across land, but they’re better at it if they’re raised outside of water, a ...

A Polypterus senegalus fish walks across a sandy substrate. The bichir fish use their fins and body together to move across land, but they’re better at it if they’re raised outside of water, a ...

They just needed some time on land to bring it out. The authors of the new study, three scientists at McGill University in Montreal, studied fish called bichirs (Polypterus).

The modern fish species called Senegal bichir (Polypterus senegalus) normally swims in African rivers. But the elongated fish possesses both gills and lungs and can walk on land if it has to.

To learn more about what happened, scientists investigated the bichir (Polypterus senegalus), a modern African fish that has lungs for breathing air, and stubby fins it can use to pull itself ...

Unusual fish that walk and breathe air turn out quite differently when raised on land, rather than in water. Their development holds clues to a pivotal moment in animal evolution, when the first ...

Land-raised bichirs provide insight into evolutionary pressures facing first vertebrates to live on land.

Native to freshwater African riverbanks, bichirs are famous for their strong fins and lungs, allowing them to “walk” and breathe out of water. But the serpentine fish prefer aquatic habitats ...

An ancient group of African fish known as bichirs were examined by scientists seeking a better understanding of the development of early vertebrates.