Scientists Filmed an Alien-Looking Fish Moonwalking Across The Seafloor

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Researchers in China have just filmed a weird shrimp-like fish scuttling sideways along the seafloor like a crab and even 'moonwalking' backward – a movement that has never been observed in any other fish. Several hundred meters below the surface, where the searobins were spotted, some 40 atmospheres' worth of water pressure sits upon one's shoulders – yes, fish have shoulders, sort of.

As the researchers observed , S. engyceros sweeps these rake-like appendages across the seabed as it walks, "occasionally touching sediment bumps or rocks".

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Researchers in China have just filmed a weird shrimp-like fish scuttling sideways along the seafloor like a crab and even 'moonwalking' backward – a movement that has never been observed in any other fish.
Several hundred meters below the surface, where the searobins were spotted, some 40 atmospheres' worth of water pressure sits upon one's shoulders – yes, fish have shoulders, sort of .
As the researchers observed , S. engyceros sweeps these rake-like appendages across the seabed as it walks, "occasionally touching sediment bumps or rocks".

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