Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey buried in the seabed
A striking fish that lives at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean has evolved legs – but not just for walking. These appendages are a novel sensory organ like a tongue, which they use to find prey buried in the seabed.) have three legs on each side of their body, protruding from the base of their pectoral fins. The legs are derived from structures within the pectoral fins, called fin rays.
The researchers then collected more of the fish, only to discover that the second batch were good at walking but not at sensing prey buried in the sand.“This time the new sea robins didn’t find anything, despite readily eating prey on the surface,” says Bellono. “We thought we were maybe doing something wrong, but it turned out that we accidentally got a different species.
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