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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Okinawa's mangrove forests are home to many animal species, from crabs to kingfishers; they host a diverse ecosystem teeming with life. Among the quirkier residents living there is ...

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 ...

(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 ...

In a massive genetic-sequencing effort, the Zoonomia Project has collated the genomes of 240 mammal species, from dormice to dolphins. Scientists digging into the data discovered that almost 11% of ...

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 ...

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, ...