The “MuddyBot” robot — with two green "fins" and a powerful "tail" — uses the locomotion principles of the mudskipper to move through a trackway filled with granular materials. The “MuddyBot” robot — ...

Chances are you’ve blinked at least a dozen times in the past minute, whether you’ve realized it or not. We rarely give a fleeting thought to this automatic behavior — not just for us but for most ...

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, ...

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 ...

When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That's ...

The barred mudskipper, scientifically called Periophthalmus argentilineatus, has more than just one oddity. Their eyes sit more on top than on the side of their heads, and despite having no lungs, ...

Nothing conquers a slippery slope like a good twitch of the tail, say researchers exploring how vertebrates could have taken the first treacherous steps on land. When early vertebrates invaded land ...

Meet the mudskipper, a fascinating fish that can walk on land! These amphibious creatures thrive in muddy shores, showcasing incredible survival skills. Unlike most fish, mudskippers use their strong ...

A blinking fish has provided scientists with clues on we may have adapted from living in the water, to living on land. Scientists think that life on Earth started in the ocean around 3.5 million years ...

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the ...

A robot modeled after the mudskipper fish that "walks" short distances over rocks and mud is helping scientists understand how animals moved millions of years ago, when they first emerged from the ...