“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Even if you think you know it all, the ocean surprises us all. This includes experts in the industry and researchers. There's everything from a fish that looks like the cookie monster & can't even ...

David Kingsley, a professor of developmental biology at Stanford University, remembers visiting a small aquarium at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass., in 2016 and coming upon ...

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