Fish Walks On Ocean Floor
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Fish walks on ocean floor. Can its cousins be saved. A fish that walks on the seafloor has gone extinct. Some sharks do in fact walk in the shallows and have been strutting their stuff for millions of years just below the surface on the ocean floor. Meet the curious fish with legs that lives at the bottom of the sea.
The fish rests on the ocean floor as he prepares to make a dart for any passing prey he has lured towards him using the protrusion above his mouth. A curious deep sea frogfish that walks on the ocean floor has been found washed up on a new zealand beach. An angler fish appears to walk across the. The smooth handfish has been declared extinct a first for any marine fish species.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Why this fish walks along the ocean floor. Video filmed near the coast of indonesia shows the odd way the fish uses its fins to propel itself forward. Marine biologists and other scientists have known this for years apparently but when one species was recently studied the team examining it found in fact four other species of walking sharks.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. While diving off the coast of indonesia hobbyist diver atsushi sadaki captured this footage of a frogfish walking along the seafloor.