The old idiom of being a fish out of water is never a positive thing. Instead, it paints a picture of being uncomfortable or awkward. This is how most fish feel when they are removed from their ...

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 ...

Mass Effect 4 may be the next chapter in BioWare's iconic series, but in many ways it seems to be calling back to the franchise's past. The trailer released at The Game Awards 2020 hinted at a return ...

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 ...

A fish species known as the Great Blue Spotted Mudskipper that inhabits tidal mudflats in the Sea of Ariake in Kyushu has made the Red List of threatened wildlife issued by the International Union for ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, our fishy ancestors dragged themselves out of the water and diversified into all the vertebrates on Earth—everything from lizards to primates to humans. But one ...

Are there fish that walk on land? Amphibious fish certainly can. Learn what the mudskipper — the most extreme of all amphibious fish — can teach us about evolution. While being a "fish out of water" ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fish aren’t supposed to survive on land. Without being ...

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 ocean, ...

My four-year-old son’s hurried footsteps betray his excitement. “There, Daddy! There it is!” he cries. Impatient, he lets go of my hand and runs ahead. We are looking at a 25-ft long mudskipper ...

You can find Stygian Mudskipper by fishing in orange ripples in Mythopia. Mythopia is one of the regions in the Storybook Vale that is hidden behind a great wall of Ink. Unlike regular Inkies that you ...