This bizarre fish with legs has been discovered off the coast of New Zealand [View all]

[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.