#lungfish — Public Fediverse posts

🐟⏳ #Coelacanths, #sturgeons, #lungfish, #lampreys, #hagfish, and #paddlefish all predate the #dinosaurs by tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Scientists sequenced their genomes, showing slow-evolving genes, ancient duplications, and clues to how our own ancestors moved onto land.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/animals/fish/6-ancient-fish-older-than-dinosaurs-that-are-still-swimming-today/

#evolution #genetics #paleontology #marinebiology #prehistoric #sciebnce #kids #deepsea #fossils

#Listening to the 1990 album Necklace Of Heads by US indie rock bank Lungfish;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UAQet0YD7dQ

Stumbled across this today, never heard of it before. I like it! It's got a jaunty groove and great some guitar tones.

It kind of reminds me of the 1994 album Memory Barge by Hardvark, a bargain bin score that I played to death when I still owned a CD player. Here's one of my favourite tracks from that album, Man of Science;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IUwoeRJS2us

#music #rock #indie #Lungfish #Hardvark

The march of the left-limbed lungfish:
https://www.science.org/content/article/fossilized-fish-trails-reveal-earliest-steps-out-water
#lungfish #paleontology #science

#xkcd: #Lungfish

https://xkcd.com/3064/

#Humour #Cartoon

This is the best explanation I've ever seen for lungfish genome sizes
https://xkcd.com/3064/
#XKCD #Genomes #MolecularEvolution #lungfish

These lyrics are resonating with me now. If anyone wants a peek and a listen to understand why Lungfish is one of my all-time favorite bands, with Daniel Higgs as preeminent philosopher/poet, I'd like to extend an invitation:
#lungfish #LungfishMusic
https://youtu.be/cbECD-K7YUs?si=ip_vUj4uSUI11jTK

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/

The world's largest animal genome https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

The genomes of all lungfish inform on genome expansion and tetrapod #evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07830-1

With over 90 gigabases, the DNA of the South American #fish is the largest of all #animal #genomes and more than twice as large as the genome of the previous record holder, the Australian #lungfish. 18 of the 19 chromosomes are each individually larger than the entire human #genome.

The fish with the genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced - Enlarge / The African Lungfish, showing it's thin, wispy fins. (credit:... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2043288 #evolution #tetrapods #genetics #genomics #lungfish #science #biology

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

International team sequence the world's largest #animal #genome: Data help explain #tetrapod #evolution.

#lungfish #Lepidosiren #90_gigabases

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-international-team-sequence-world-largest.html

#Fossil hunter discovers new species of 210-million-year-old lungfish https://phys.org/news/2024-08-fossil-hunter-species-million-year.html

A new #lungfish from the Upper #Triassic of the Mid-#Zambezi Basin, #Zimbabwe https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2365391

This is a time in history when the rise of the #dinosaurs was starting, and bony #fish were diversifying.

Do we have any Lungfish fans here in the Fedi?
They were/are one of my favorite bands of all time. I probably saw them at least 10 times between about '94 and '05, and they were perhaps equally as influential in the music I was making 20 or so years ago as were the Grateful Dead
Here they are in Lancaster PA in their late period, for those familiar and unfamiliar. Their last US show was in 2005 in Baltimore. (Also on YT)
https://youtu.be/h1Bl51yYhF0?si=UY2mxvVuL9GYQe3S

#Lungfish #LungfishMusic

#Zimbabwe’s new #dinosaur discovery: inside the find https://theconversation.com/zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find-231827 paper: https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011002023.html

"From the houseboat, we used small boats to reach shore and to navigate the sinuous inlets heading inland... we quickly found new material, including the teeth, jaw bones and armour plates of a crocodile-like aquatic predator called a #phytosaur... We also found #lungfish teeth and #dinosaur bones... these #fossils were deposited in an ancient freshwater #swamp"

Lungfish - Kissing. #Lungfish #KissingSongs

https://youtu.be/zsnnFgAS6qI

#Buitreraptor and a small #lungfish. The head shape of the Buitreraptor isn't really quite right but it's getting better. I gave it feathers like a painting of a Chinese phoenix I saw once.
#printmaking #linocut #fishart #paleoart

A tiny 5mm #fossil tooth plate from a Upper #Triassic #lungfish, #Ptychoceratodus phillipsi (syn. #Ceratodus phillipsi) from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, France. I don't know the name of the deposit, but a quick search suggests the Grès à Avicula contorta Formation.

#HappyNewYear ! Here’s a an unfinished favorite of mine from 2022 - an illustration of an African #lungfish.

#FishArt #SundayFishSketch #fish #art

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 5
#MarineLifeMonday

Most #fish species alive today, from #salmon to #guppies, belong to a single group. In the #Devonian, though, many lineages were abundant. #Quebec's 🇨🇦 #ParcNationalDeMiguasha provides a glimpse of this #biodiversity, which includes #lungfish such as Scaumenacia curta, shown here in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Their lobed fins contain many of the same #bones as our arms, evidence that lungfish are much more closely related to us than to most other fish.