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 ...

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 ...

“New things came from old parts,” says David Kingsley, a developmental biologist at Stanford University. A walking fish with taste organs on its limbs may look “really new and cool and different, but ...

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, ...

'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid's huge genome, revealing secrets of ...

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 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 ...