A face on the seafloorSourced
Bright red lips on a fish that walks
The red-lipped batfish lives around the Galápagos Islands. Its red lips are striking, but so is its movement: a poor swimmer, it uses modified fins to walk along the seafloor.
Below that unusual face, fins serve much like legs.
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