Sea 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, they ...

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, ...

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 ...

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The evolution of novel traits is a central theme in understanding how organisms adapt to their environments, and sea robins (family Triglidae) provide a fascinating case study. Recent research, led by ...

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 ...

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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