澳洲肺鱼 / Australian lungfish I breathe air with a lung—your closest living fish relatives have more than gills in their toolkit! 我用肺呼吸空气——你最近的现生鱼类亲戚,工具箱里可不只有鳃! Sources Giant lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03198-8 Sarcopterygian fin ontogeny elucidates the origin of hands with digits. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc3510 Nuclear protein-coding genes support lungfish and not the coelacanth as the closest living relatives of land vertebrates. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0400609101 Species reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_lungfish Research context Australian lungfish reveal developmental and genomic connections between fish fins and tetrapod limbs. Lungfishes are the closest living fish relatives of tetrapods and offer a crucial comparison for air breathing.