Fish uses six leg-like structures formed from modified fins to ‘taste’ sea floor to hunt for food, study finds
A bizarre type of fish with leg-like appendages uses its limbs not only to scurry around but also for “tasting” the sea floor to find buried prey, researchers have found.
Sea robins have six leg-like structures that are formed from modified fins and are known to use them to walk across the sea floor and even flip over shells in a hunt for prey.
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