#lungfishes

A new fossil fish sheds light on the rapid evolution of early lungfishes Qiao et al. report a new Early Devonian lungfish from China, Paleolophus, which bridges the morphological gap between Diabolepis and eudipnoans. Its three-dimensional preservation reveals cranial anat...

In the early Devonian #lungfishes — now considered "living fossils" — were all the rage!

A new #fish from China attests to this early diversification.
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Lungfishes Alice Clement introduces the lungfishes, a group of sarcopterygian fishes that uses lungs to breathe and is the living sister group to tetrapod vertebrates.

What would you most like to know about #lungfishes? ... Why they have such ginormous genomes? How they breathe air? How they embarrassed taxonomists?

Check out my Quick Guide, published in Current Biology today: www.cell.com/current-biol...