Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology. |
The fins are very flexible and potentially useful for supporting the body on land, as in lungfish and tetrapods. |
For example, Australian lungfish and luminescent stag beetles have been big hits in Japan in recent years. |
Finding labyrinthodont amphibian vertebrae and lungfish teeth, we took several bags of matrix to wash. |
Stewart documents over 20 species of fish, including lungfish, electric fish, large minnows, catfish, Nile perch, and rare cichlids. |
He grumbled, rapidly crawling ahead at a rate I'd never have expected to see in a land-adapted fish, be it a walking catfish or a lungfish. |