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Northern sea robin: A unique fish with ‘crab legs’ that feeds and walks with them

The wing fish, common sea robin, or Northern sea robin (Prionotus carolinus), is a characteristic fish of sandy sea floors along the western Atlantic, from Florida to Nova Scotia and the Gulf of ...
The New York Times

This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor

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 ...
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Sea robins are fish with ‘the wings of a bird and multiple legs like a crab’

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 ...
Ars Technica

Bizarre fish has sensory “legs” it uses for walking and tasting

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 ...
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Sea robins are fish with ‘the wings of a bird and multiple legs like a crab’

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Some types of sea ...