Climbing perch use their pectoral fins and tail to move around on land. They also use the spines on the lower edges of their gill covers ...

Beginning around 390 million years ago, however, the ancestors of modern land animals rose out of the waters, trading their ...

Led by the University of Cambridge, the team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is developing palaeo-inspired robots.

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant ... in part by taking their inspiration from modern-day 'walking fish' such as mudskippers, and from fossils of extinct fish.

could help shed light on how humans evolved to walk upright some six million years ago. David Kingsley, a professor at Stanford University in the US, said: “Land animals evolved from fish ...

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant ... in part by taking their inspiration from modern-day 'walking fish' such as mudskippers, and from fossils of extinct fish.

Robots could help shed light on how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from ... partly inspired by modern-day walking fish such as mudskippers, and from fossils of extinct fish.