“Living Fossils” with Massive Genome: Our Closest Living Fish Ancestors?

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By Ken Ham

Recently I wrote about a unique Australian creature that was in the news—the platypus. Well, another creature from my home Down Under is making headlines. This one isn’t as well known as the platypus, but it’s also unique (for instance, it has both gills and a lung). What is it? It’s the Australian lungfish! But why is it in the news?

It’s the largest animal genome sequenced to date at a stunning 43 billion base pairs (to put that in perspective, our genome has “only” 3 billion base pairs).

Scientists just finished mapping the lungfish genome (DNA sequence). It’s the …read more

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