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
576	Fisherman hooks prehistoric 200-pound alligator	Fox News	2024-05-04	US
577	Angler breaks 43-year-old record after reeling in large perch in Lake Michigan	FOX 13 News	2024-05-07	US
578	Poachers nailed after hiding fish in strange places	foxnews	2024-05-04	US
579	Tuna fishing season using a technique thousands of years old opens in Spain with some of those landed on first day	surinenglish	2024-04-19	SP
580	Filipino fishermen blame sand mining for declining catch	bworldonline	2024-04-21	PH
581	Warming seas push Indias fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters	mongabay	2024-04-23	IN
582	Douglas County man arrested after thousands of hatchery fish poisoned	kobi5	2024-04-25	US
583	Navigating the rise in conflicts between humans and fishing cats in Bangladesh	mongabay	2024-04-25	BD
584	How local fishermen found a group of blackfin tuna while fishing in Gulf of Mexico	Bradenton Herald	2024-04-21	US
585	Unlike Earnest Hemingway's epic tale "The Old Man and the Sea," the sharks did not come along and eat the giant. Though, after	Asbury Park Press	2024-04-22	US
586	117 operations to tackle fish bombing in Sabah since 2021	nst	2024-04-24	MY
587	Woman catches 30-pound koi fish in Texas lake	klfy	2024-04-26	US
588	Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers say	mongabay	2024-04-26	IT
589	BC salmon farmer hopes algae can replace wild fish as feed ingredient	mycomoxvalleynow	2024-04-27	CA
590	The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches	BBC News	2024-04-19	US
591	More California dog owners advised to be aware of salmon poisoning disease	ktla	2024-04-23	US
592	Dead Fish Suddenly Found in California Lake Raises Alarms	msn	2024-04-30	US
593	Angler who posed with giant salmon for proud Facebook picture is netted for illegal fishing and fined nearly £1,000	Daily Mail	2024-03-16	UK
594	The patin are gone: the freshwater war against suckermouth catfish	freemalaysiatoday	2024-04-13	MY
595	Nature reserve to be created next to new nuclear plant that will kill tonnes of fish a year	telegraph	2024-04-16	UK
596	San Antonio angler reels in 30-inch unusual catch in neighborhood pond	mysanantonio	2024-04-13	US
597	Girls record catfish sparks controversy	usatoday	2024-04-18	US
598	Stolen tropical fish returned to Ottawa Valley restaurant	CBC News	2024-04-19	CA
599	Soft sea creature – with red scaleless body — discovered in Japan	miamiherald	2024-04-19	JP
600	This invasive alien fish is threatening the Guadalquivir ecosystem	d1softballnews	2024-04-14	US