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 ...

The northern sea robin (Prionotus carolinus) is among the more unusual fish in the ocean, using its leg-like fins to drag ...

There are many mysteries of the ocean that still baffle scientists. Most of the time, this revolves around unique sea creatures that actually exist, despite being animals that look like aliens. One of ...

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 ...

While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle. By Sofia Quaglia The sea robin has fascinated scientists for decades. It has the body of a fish, the wings of a bird and the legs of a ...

David Kingsley, a professor of developmental biology at Stanford University, remembers visiting a small aquarium at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass., in 2016 and coming upon ...

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