Why have an amphibious fish run on a treadmill? Not for exercise or even a viral YouTube video. In order to test how oxygen impacts certain animals, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

A bluespotted mudskipper, right, jumps on a mudflat in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, on May 21, 2022. On the tidal flats of the Ariake Sea, the fish are enter ...

Next the team plans to analyze the skin of P. variabilis and compare it to fish species that cannot climb trees or hop across water. They will look at other mudskippers and their methods of traveling.

If a mudskipper infringes on a neighbour’s territory, a fight may ensue. The 20-centimetre-long fish can leap 50 centimetres in the air during combat,… Advertisement ...