The mudskipper is a fascinating animal, in that it's a fish that both swims in the water and crawls on the land. It's probably not unlike the prehistoric fishes that first ventured out of the ...

Mudskippers blink—and that’s a huge evolutionary clue Their mucus-filled tears may tell a story of how animals moved from water to land. Laura Baisas Apr 24, 2023 3:00 PM EDT ...

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 mudskipper’s eyes bulge out of the top of their heads, like a frog’s eyes. To blink, the fish momentarily retract the eyes down into sockets, where they are covered by a stretchy membrane ...

Mudskippers are amphibious fishes that have developed morphological and physiological adaptations to match their unique lifestyles. Here we perform whole-genome sequencing of four representative ...

But one particular fish just can't seem to make up its mind about living in the water or on land: the mudskipper. And good on it, because it's marvelously adapted for both lives.