Evolution has turned out bizarre and baffling creatures, such as walking fish. It only gets weirder from there. Some of these fish not only walk on the seafloor, but use their leg-like appendages to ...

Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." But sea robins in the family Triglidae are some of the ...

During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish using six leg-like appendages to "walk" around the bottom of their tank.

https://talker.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/fish-with-legs-1254540.mov By Stephen Beech via SWNS A fish with legs uses them to "taste" the seabed for prey, reveals ...

Some types of sea robins, a peculiar bottom-dwelling ocean fish, use taste bud-covered legs to sense and dig up prey along the seafloor, according to new research. Sea robins are so adept at rooting ...

Forget crab legs. When it comes to taste, the gams on sea robin fishes have crustaceans beat by a mile. The strange creatures are notable for being fish that use their six leg-like appendages to walk ...

The evolution of novel traits is a central theme in understanding how organisms adapt to their environments, and sea robins (family Triglidae) provide a fascinating case study. Recent research, led by ...

The team found that sea robins’ legs are covered in sensory papillae, each receiving dense innervation from touch-sensitive neurons. ANIK GREARSON VIA SWNS. They explained that the papillae also have ...

Imagine wading in the shallows at the beach and tasting mussels and clams hidden under the sand — with your feet. That's exactly how two species of North American fish with wing-like fins, ...

Sea robins are ocean fish particularly suited to their bottom-dwelling lifestyle: Six leg-like appendages make them so adept at scurrying, digging, and finding prey that other fish tend to hang out ...

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