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 ...

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

"They are fish, but they can walk and live partly on land," says Dr. Fabienne Ziadi-Künzli from the Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit, who is the first author of a study on mudskipper ...

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.

Fossil evidence from the water-to-land transition is limited ... Their machines are inspired by the anatomy of existing “walking fish,” like mudskippers, as well as fossils of extinct 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.

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.