A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have zeroed in on an amphibious fish species to better understand the evolutionary pressures that molded blinking in land-dwelling ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The unusual looking mudskipper has a startling face, and a ...

Are there fish that walk on land? Amphibious fish certainly can. Learn what the mudskipper — the most extreme of all amphibious fish — can teach us about evolution. While being a "fish out of water" ...

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 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...

Chances are you’ve blinked at least a dozen times in the past minute, whether you’ve realized it or not. We rarely give a fleeting thought to this automatic behavior — not just for us but for most ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and is providing clues as to how and why blinking might have evolved during the transition to ...

Mudskippers, amphibious fish dwelling in mudflats from Africa to South America, possess unique adaptations enabling them to thrive on land. They breathe through their skin and mouth linings, move ...

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 ...

A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh traveled to Java to research the mudskipper, a mysterious species of fish that’s capable of using its pectoral fins like legs to walk on land and ...

We set out to explore one of the strangest creatures living at the edge of land and sea - the mudskipper. In this episode, we look at how this fish walks on land, breathes air, and thrives where few ...

You can teach a mudskipper to take food from your hand or simply enjoy their many interesting faces as they beg for attention. Either way, these land and water fish are astonishing both physically and ...

Giant mudskipper (credit: Wikimedia Commons) The uniqueness of blinking Unlike other animals, mudskippers suck their eyes downward into their sockets to blink, a behavior that did not require the ...