Bichir, pronounced “be-sheer,” are considered living fossil fish. Also known as “dinosaur eels,” these fish have many unique features. Read on to learn everything you need to know about what makes ...

The deft wrigglings of fish forced to grow up on land could offer a glimpse of how ancient vertebrates started to make the big move out of the sea. The modern fish species called Senegal bichir ...

Sometimes a fish out of water really can do better on land! Scientists studying a strange fish called a bichir from riverbanks in Africa have found that when they raise these so-called dragon fish in ...

It was one of the key events in the evolution of animals – and now it has been replayed in the lab. Evolutionary biologists reared air-breathing fish on land for eight months and found that the ...

A Polypterus senegalus fish walks across a sandy substrate. The bichir fish use their fins and body together to move across land, but they’re better at it if they’re raised outside of water, a study ...

The discovery that a long, skinny fish can regrow its fin in a matter of weeks suggests that ancient vertebrates had considerable regenerative powers. Two species of bichir from Africa can regrow ...

In a bold experiment, Standen and colleagues reared a group of bichirs on land for eight months and compared them with bichirs that had developed in their normal aquatic environment (Fig. 1). They ...