This bizarre fish with legs has been discovered off the coast of New Zealand

[WillParkinson]

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-bizarre-fish-with-legs-has-been-discovered-off-the-coast-of-new-zealand

There's no shortage of strange things living at the bottom of our oceans, but earlier this week a specimen was found off the coast of New Zealand that's so bizarre, it even left the experts stumped.

Initially described by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as a fish with 'legs', the black, spiny animal has two fins on either side of its abdomen that look like they could be used to walk along the bottom of the sea. The fish was discovered in the Bay of Islands, off the coast of New Zealand's North Island, hidden amongst a pile of kelp on a boat.

[Warpy]

1. My best guess says they mostly swim

but can use those fins to push themselves inside deep vegetation or cracks in rocks or even sand to escape predators.

Neat fish!

[Xipe Totec]

2. BC

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. This is so cool:

Frogfishes have the fastest bite of any vertebrate," the New Zealand museum explains. "Their mouths expand at the speed approaching a .22 rifle bullet - and that's in a medium 800x denser than air."

can you just picture if humans had that ability.?