Mudskippers live happily both above and below the water. ©aDam Wildlife/Shutterstock.com The old idiom of being a fish out of water is never a positive thing. Instead, it paints a picture of being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a fish that is capable of not only walking on land but thriving outside of the water for hours at a time. This fish is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mudskippers are actually fish, but they sure don’t act like it. They breathe using special gill chambers and absorb oxygen through their skin like amphibians. Scanning the lumpy mudscape with their ...

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 life on land in our own ...

Mudskippers are the only fish that blink and evoke the first animals to walk on land. Plus, the largest ever collection of mammalian genetic sequences and Rosalind Franklin’s great-niece talks about ...

Imagine a fish that is capable of not only walking on land but thriving outside of the water for hours at a time. This fish is not imaginary. Instead, it is the mudskipper. Mudskippers are fish that ...

(via Deep Look) Mudskippers are actually fish, but they sure don't act like it. They breathe using special gill chambers and absorb oxygen through their skin like amphibians. Scanning the lumpy ...