#Listening to the 1990 album Necklace Of Heads by US indie rock bank Lungfish;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UAQet0YD7dQ

Stumbled across this today, never heard of it before. I like it! It's got a jaunty groove and great some guitar tones.

It kind of reminds me of the 1994 album Memory Barge by Hardvark, a bargain bin score that I played to death when I still owned a CD player. Here's one of my favourite tracks from that album, Man of Science;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IUwoeRJS2us

#music #rock #indie #Lungfish #Hardvark

Lungfish

xkcd
This is the best explanation I've ever seen for lungfish genome sizes
https://xkcd.com/3064/
#XKCD #Genomes #MolecularEvolution #lungfish
Lungfish

xkcd
These lyrics are resonating with me now. If anyone wants a peek and a listen to understand why Lungfish is one of my all-time favorite bands, with Daniel Higgs as preeminent philosopher/poet, I'd like to extend an invitation:
#lungfish #LungfishMusic
https://youtu.be/cbECD-K7YUs?si=ip_vUj4uSUI11jTK
Hear The Children Sing

YouTube

Lungfish โ€“ Blue Sky
[from ยซNecrophonesยป, 2000]

https://lungfish.bandcamp.com/track/blue-sky

#FediRadio #AltRock #Lungfish

Blue Sky, by Lungfish

from the album Necrophones

Lungfish

Recycling facility used as alleged illegal dump for thousands of tonnes of toxic waste on Fraser Coast

"There are multiple threatened species of turtles and fish living in that part of the Mary River. Toxic waste could be transported down the river channel into the estuary in the coastal zone."
#RamsarConvention #rivers #MaryRiver #turtles #lungfish #platypus #dumping #waste #toxins #ThreatenedSpecies #BushProperties #FraserCoast #WasteManagement

Genes for life on land evolved earlier in fish.
Hidden genetic pathways behind land-water transition are found in living fish

Absolutely fascinating! โฌ‡๏ธ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿป

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.371.6530.658

#science #evolution #lungfish #genesequencing

Largest animal genome sequenced โ€” and just 1 chromosome is the size of the entire human genome

Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish โ€” ancient fish that breathe air.

Live Science
The #fish with the #genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced
Every 10 million years, #lungfish have added a human genome's worth of #junkDNA.
Getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest #genomes known in animals, with the South American lungfish genome containing over 90 billion base pairs. That's 30 times the amount of #DNA we have.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/the-fish-with-the-genome-30-times-larger-than-ours-gets-sequenced/
The fish with the genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced

Every 10 million years, lungfish have added a human genome's worth of junk DNA.

Ars Technica