A fish species known as the Great Blue Spotted Mudskipper that inhabits tidal mudflats in the Sea of Ariake in Kyushu has made the Red List of threatened wildlife issued by the International Union for ...

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Mudskippers are unique fish. They live both in water and on land. They walk with strong fins. They breathe through skin and mouth. Their eyes are on top of their heads. Mudskippers eat insects and ...

The water-to-land transition during the Devonian period is one of the most significant events in the evolutionary history of vertebrates and led to the emergence of tetrapods, the most successful ...

To approach a question 400 million years in the making, researchers turned to mudskippers, blinking fish that live partially out of water. A magnified view of the human eye shows the pupil, the ...

The barred mudskipper, scientifically called Periophthalmus argentilineatus, has more than just one oddity. Their eyes sit more on top than on the side of their heads, and despite having no lungs, ...

Blinking is crucial for the eye. It's how animals clean their eyes, protect them, and even communicate. But how and why did blinking originate? Researchers have studied the mudskipper, an amphibious ...