(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists seeking to protect the soldier of the future can learn a lot from a relic of the past, according to an MIT study of a primitive fish that could point to more effective ways ...

Polypterus senegalus reaches a length of about 20 inches and sports a layer of scales that all armored fish would have had millions of years ago. Polypterus Senegalus Reaches A Length Of About 20 ...

A team of MIT engineers is hoping to develop tomorrow’s body armor today with a fish whose family tree stretches back 96 million years. Called the Polypterus senegalus, or “dinosaur eel” to layman ...

A Polypterus senegalus fish walks across a sandy substrate. The bichir fish use their fins and body together to move across land, but they’re better at it if they’re raised outside of water, a study ...

Knowledge of the structure–property–function relationships of dermal scales of armoured fish could enable pathways to improved bioinspired human body armour, and may provide clues to the evolutionary ...

Polypterus senegalus walks across a sandy substrate. Fish use their fins and body in combination to move across a terrestrial substrate. Fins are planted one after the other to lift the head and ...

Science marches on. Sometimes, it does so on fins. Research conducted at McGill University studied the effect of a lifetime of walking on a certain type of fish. Yes, fish.

The polypterids (bichirs and ropefish) are extant basal actinopterygian (ray-finned) fishes that breathe air and share similarities with extant lobe-finned sarcopterygians (lungfishes and tetrapods) ...