While diving off the coast of indonesia hobbyist diver atsushi sadaki captured this footage of a frogfish walking along the seafloor.
Fish walks on ocean floor.
Marine biologists and other scientists have known this for years apparently but when one species was recently studied the team examining it found in fact four other species of walking sharks.
The smooth handfish has been declared extinct a first for any marine fish species.
Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.
The fish rests on the ocean floor as he prepares to make a dart for any passing prey he has lured towards him using the protrusion above his mouth.
This fish walks on the seafloor.
Can its cousins be saved.
Why this fish walks along the ocean floor.
Video filmed near the coast of indonesia shows the odd way the fish uses its fins to propel itself forward.
Meet the sea robin a deep sea fish that can walk across the ocean floor.
A fish that walks on the seafloor has gone extinct.
Sea robins or triglidae look nothing like their avian namesakes other than having an orange hue the armored type of.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Meet the curious fish with legs that lives at the bottom of the sea.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.