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Defying aquatic norms, several fish species across Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas exhibit remarkable terrestrial ...
Although remarkable looking, it is not looks that have scientists excited about this "walking" fish with six legs. Instead, ...
It’s a bird! It’s a crab! No, it’s a fish that can taste with its legs. Some sea robins, a group of fishes with two winglike fins and six crablike legs, use their legs to dig in sand and ...
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Some types of “walking” fish called sea robins can use their taste bud-covered legs to detect prey buried beneath the sandy covering of the seafloor. CNN values your feedback 1.
So walking fish may have taken several different evolutionary paths, but this recent study suggests a common genetic mechanism. There are 32 living species of mudskipper.
Walking sarcopterygian fish are either extinct, like Tiktaalik, or so highly evolved that we don’t recognise them as fish any longer (tetrapods). One example of a living fish that walks is the ...