Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish — ancient fish that breathe air.

The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and ...

The South American lungfish has a whopping 180 gigabases of DNA in each cell, compared with 6 gigabases in human cells ...

Picture yourself at the edge of a shallow sea, sometime between 420 and 360 million years ago. Here, an extraordinary event ...

And getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest genomes known ...

Long-term, heritable changes in gene activity fundamentally shape our biology, trigger many of our diseases, and set the ...

The decoding of the genome of the South American lungfish promises insights into the evolution and adaptation of vertebrates ...

Thirty times the size of the human genome: An international team of researchers led by ... which are similar in bone structure to our arms, evolved back into filamentous fins over the last 100 million ...

It seems that evolution has forgotten them, because these ancient "living fossils" still look very much like their ancestors.

By decoding the rules of DNA as a language, researchers can gain an understanding of the biological meaning hidden within our ...

An international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and Würzburg biochemist Manfred ...

A new study on dogs found that chromatin's spatial structure has a significant role in the evolution of social behavior.