Weird "Walking" Frogfish


	Weird "Walking" Frogfish
Kelika
1-12-2009 9:34 PM
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1-12-2009 9:54 PM
chestnut501
Well, of course they call it a frogfish....it doesn't look like either.
1-13-2009 12:16 AM
tanyamm
Some of them are kind of cute.
Some of the are so ugly.
1-13-2009 3:37 AM
mona
what odd-looking creatures.....!
1-14-2009 2:44 PM
reimers
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAVO1vqRXs
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee8d1d64-0fb7-4f31-bedf-92e8eaf5768b/544509E6-E94A-4BA0-90C5-0CC0C2525AF9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html" href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.darkroastedblend.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html"><DIV>Watch it walk the ocean floor on its flimsy legs (pelvic fins), looking like a fluffy rabbit; sharks swim around, but won't touch it (too frigging cute?). So what, in the name of the global warming, is this thing?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html"><DIV>It's a <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogfish" linkindex="227">Frog Fish</A>! And it doesn't just walk idly around, it stalks the sea floor LURING, and trying to catch things floating around:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.darkroastedblend.com/img/2554CA3C-6D73-4BDD-88AD-68E4D3768E2E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/weird-walking-frog-fish.html"><DIV>It walks! but doesn't talk (thankfully) - <I>Sargasso frogfish, Histrio histrio</I></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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