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 ...

Your legs may help you get around, but what if they could also help you sniff out a snack? That’s a trick achieved by a fish called the sea robin. The fish, which lives on the seafloor, has an unusual ...

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 ...

A fish with legs uses them to “taste” the seabed for prey, reveals new research. Sea robins have the body of a fish, the wings of a bird, and six legs, similar to a crab. Two new studies have revealed ...

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 ...

Sea robins are weird animals who use leg-like appendages to walk on the seafloor. Now, scientists know why they evolved those limbs. Reading time 3 minutes Forget crab legs. When it comes to taste, ...

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.

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