Meet the walking sea fish with six legs amazing scientists across the globe
The Independent - Fri 27 Sep 24A species of “walking” fish is helping shed light on how humans evolved to stand upright millions of years ago.
Researchers Discover How a Fish With Legs Uses Them To Find Food
Discover Magazine - Fri 27 Sep 24Curiosity and serendipity helped two teams of scientists learn that one species of sea robin employs legs that have both the sense of touch and taste.
Sea robins have 'the body of a fish, wings of a bird, legs of a crab'. They can also taste with their 'feet'
ABC Science - Thu 26 Sep 24Imagine wading in the shallows at the beach and tasting mussels and clams hidden under the sand — with your feet. A new study shows fish species evolved to do just that.
These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food
Newscientist - Thu 26 Sep 24Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey buried in the seabed
This fish’s legs are made for walking — and tasting the sea floor
Nature News - Thu 26 Sep 24Nature, Published online: 26 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03117-7The northern sea robin has taste buds on its feet that can sense buried prey.
Fish that walk? Sea robins use ‘legs’ to dig, taste, move on ocean floor
Interesting Engineering - Thu 26 Sep 24 Fish called 'sea robins' have real legs that they use to both walk and taste things, Earth.com - Fri 27 Sep 24function imageLoadError(img) { const fallbackImage = '/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg'; img.removeAttribute('on, CNN - Thu 26 Sep 24
This Winged Fish Uses Strange Tongue-Like "Legs" To Taste The Seafloor – Yes, Really, IFLScience - Thu 26 Sep 24
This Fish Has Legs: Sea Robins Reveal Evolutionary Secrets, Science Blog - Thu 26 Sep 24
Fish Use Legs To Taste Seafloor, Mirage News - Thu 26 Sep 24
This Fish Has Legs, Mirage News - Thu 26 Sep 24
This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor
New York Times - Thu 26 Sep 24While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle.
Fish that evolved legs has another surprise in store
Cosmos Magazine - Thu 26 Sep 24Prionotus carolinus, a species of sea robin. Credit: Anik Grearson A family of fishes that evolved “legs” to walk along the seafloor have another use for their strange appendages – ...
‘Weird’ walking fish could shed light on how humans evolved to stand upright
The Independent - Thu 26 Sep 24The sea robin has six leg-like structures that it uses to scurry across the ocean floor.
Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste and navigate seafloor, researchers discover
Phys.org - Thu 26 Sep 24Sea 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 ...
Meet the Sea Robin: A Fish That Walks and Tastes the Seafloor With Its Legs
ZME Science - Fri 27 Sep 24The sea robin walks on leg-like fins that can taste the seafloor, showcasing evolution's clever repurposing of traits.
These Fish Have Legs—and They Can Use Them to Taste Prey
Smithsonian Magazine - Fri 27 Sep 24Sea robins have "the body of a fish, the wings of a bird and multiple legs like a crab"
How fish with tongue-like legs trawl the sea floor for meals
Salon - Fri 27 Sep 24Scientists just uncovered how sea robins evolved their weird legs that can lick out its prey
These Bizarre Fish Walk on Six Legs and Taste the Location of Buried Prey
Scientific American - Thu 26 Sep 24A species of legged fish uses taste receptors to search for hidden prey, providing an ideal window for scientists to study the emergence of new evolutionary traits
This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues
Popular Science - Thu 26 Sep 24Like a creature from a Doctor Seuss book, the sea robin is an unusual looking fish. It’s built with the body of a typical fish, the “wings” of a bird, and legs like a crustacean. Those ...
Sea Robins Use Their Leg-Like Appendages as Sensory Organs, Marine Biologists Find
Sci.News - Fri 27 Sep 24Sea robins are unusual ocean fish that possess specialized leg-like appendages used to ‘walk’ along the sea floor. The post Sea Robins Use Their Leg-Like Appendages as Sensory Organs, Marine ...
These fish use legs to taste the seafloor
ScienceDaily - Thu 26 Sep 24Sea robins are unusual animals with the body of a fish, wings of a bird, and walking legs of a crab. Now, researchers show that the legs of the sea robin aren't just used for walking. In fact, ...
These fish use legs to taste the seafloor, Eurekalert - Thu 26 Sep 24Walking Fish? Discover the Sea Robin’s Unique Ability
SciTechDaily - Thu 26 Sep 24Researchers have discovered that the legs of sea robins, which resemble those of a crab, serve as sensory organs to detect prey. This finding, documented in two studies published in Current ...
This fish has legs
Eurekalert - Thu 26 Sep 24Two studies in Current Biology provide the most comprehensive understanding to date on how sea robins use their legs, what genes control the emergence of those legs, and how these animals could ...