These Bizarre Fish Walk on Six Legs and Taste the Location of Buried Prey
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David Kingsley, a professor at Stanford, recalls a transformative moment at the MBL aquarium, where he saw walking fish—sea robins—that resembled a fusion of multiple animal traits.
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Kingsley describes the awe of seeing sea robins: 'It was just astonishing to me to see a fish that looked like a composite of traits that incorporated the wings of a bird, the body of a fish, the legs of crabs.' His experience ignited a passion to study the evolutionary significance of these unique traits.
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After being inspired by the sea robins, Kingsley immediately began researching on his way back to Stanford. He loaded up his phone with PDFs and information about the fish: 'By the time we got back to Stanford, I thought, We could do this.'
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