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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

'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 ...

This fish has legs — but they’re not just for walking. Scientists have found that the northern sea robin (Prionotus carolinus) uses its limbs both to stroll the ocean bottom and to taste the sea floor ...

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