Meet Australia’s oldest freshwater fish, which can breathe air like a land dweller

Meet Australia’s oldest freshwater fish, which can breathe air like a land dweller

Source: smh

7/7/2022

Credit: California Academy of Sciences

Humans are not so different from the Australian lungfish, which look similar to the ancient creatures that crawled out of the oceans millions of years ago and evolved, first into beings with four flipper-like appendages, then into people.

We can both breathe air through lungs, have enamel on our teeth and now scientists have found the fish can even live to the age of 100 and beyond

The discovery was made through DNA testing of a sample taken from a lungfish called Granddad, who was shipped to Chicago on a 20-day voyage in 1933 for the world’s fair and lived at the Shedd Aquarium for 84 years until he was euthanised due to failing health.

Continue...

News Id		Source	Stamp	country
3151	Toothpick attacked by live fish in Japanese restaurant	sproutwired	2022-04-07	JP
3152	Activists push Russia to ban salmon fishing in Amur River amid abysmal returns	seafoodsource	2022-04-08	RU
3153	Congressional delegation secures $220 million for fish passage on the Green River, TPU’s primary drinking water source	thesubtimes	2022-04-02	US
3154	New research and website aggregates more than 150 years of data on sounds made by fish	wgcu	2022-04-04	US
3155	Fighting Over Illegal Fishing Leads to Armed Conflict, Deaths	voanews	2022-04-06	US
3156	Proud to support Ukrainians Find out how we're helping UK's seafood ranking plummets - 'urgent' action needed to 'recover' rava	express	2022-04-06	UK
3157	Scientists Reveal Shocking Levels of Abuse in Global Fishing Sector	cnet	2022-04-06	TH
3158	More than $2 million coming to help restore Cayuga Creek	Spectrum News	2022-03-23	US
3159	Endako River west of Prince George to benefit from B.C.’s $27M watershed stimulus grant	princegeorgecitizen	2021-03-15	CA
3160	'It was unusual,' fisherman says after catching a lamprey on the Current River	Springfield News-Leader	2022-03-27	US
3161	Non-compliant anglers disappoint Fish and Game rangers	stuff	2022-03-28	NZ
3162	Capetonians urged to steer clear of pufferfish washed ashore in Simon's Town	news 24	2022-03-31	ZA
3163	Amid legal questions, Board bans subsistence spearfishing at Sitka’s Redoubt Lake Falls	KCAW	2022-03-31	CA
3164	Injured pelican survived harsh Alberta winter thanks to invasive fish species, says naturalist	CBC News	2022-04-14	CA
3165	Scientists, farmers team up to save one of SA's most threatened fish	fin24	2022-04-01	ZA
3166	‘Adventurous’ Kate eats ‘nature’s viagra’ at fish fry in the Bahamas	METRO	2022-03-27	UK
3167	Quebec’s first urban fish farm set to make a splash in Montreal with Arctic char	Global News	2022-03-29	CA
3168	Scientists discover new ‘Wolverine’ freshwater fish	ETX Daily Up	2022-03-29	IN
3169	Angler hooks 6-foot whopper as sturgeon bite busts loose in West Delta near Pittsburg	recordnet	2022-03-29	CA
3170	Mum and son unknowingly take bomb home after Mother's Day fishing trip	mirror	2022-03-30	UK
3171	В Югре отловленную стерлядь вернули обратно в реки	AIF	2018-06-09	RU
3172	Зачем осетрам УЗИ? Искусственное разведение вернёт царскую рыбу в реки	AIF	2022-04-13	RU
3173	Colpoy’s Bay Stocked with Rainbow Trout	Bayshore News Team	2010-04-18	CA
3174	BPSA urges anglers to release big spawning rainbows	wiartonecho	2020-05-27	CA
3175	Postcard from Bay	wiarton	2020-10-06	CA

126 of [137 - pages.]