The wing fish, common sea robin, or Northern sea robin (Prionotus carolinus), is a characteristic fish of sandy sea floors along the western Atlantic, from Florida to Nova Scotia and the Gulf of ...

Why it's awesome: Northern sea robins are weird fish with big, spiny heads; bright-blue eyes; two giant wing fins; and six crab-like legs. It's these little legs that make sea robins so unusual. Other ...

“New things came from old parts,” says David Kingsley, a developmental biologist at Stanford University. A walking fish with taste organs on its limbs may look “really new and cool and different, but ...

Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." But sea robins in the family Triglidae are some of the ...