Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-sea-robins-leg-fins-seafloor.html

by wglb • 2 years ago

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james_pm• 2 years ago

The latest episode of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks had a very excellent segment on this odd creature (amongst other topics). It's a fantastic weekly science show available as a podcast.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-plastic-we-need-to-un...

FergusArgyll• 2 years ago

Sea robins are the bane of my existence. I just try to make an honest living [0] catching flounder and (hopefully!) stripers and these bums keep eating the bait and making their stupid noises. AT LEAST FIGHT WHEN I HAVE YOU ON THE LINE YOU LAZY FISH

[0] Not really my living don't worry...

HeyLaughingBoy• 2 years ago

I heard that they're tasty. Or at least that's what the dude in the boat passing by said when I held one up and yelled, "do you know what this is?"

buildsjets2• 2 years ago

They are not bad to eat, but not worth the effort to clean. Very little usable meat in the tail, and there is a double row of bones you have to filet out. And the meat is kind of translucent green until you cook it, then it turns white. But so do other fish like lingcod and some rockfish.

pvaldes• 2 years ago

This is known since decades so, what adds the new discovery exactly?

ravenstine• 2 years ago

I don't know. Articles with these kinds of headlines don't seem to even try to justify themselves anymore.

Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover

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