New Species: Fish With “Hands”

[MNeagle]

http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/208/cache/new-handfish-species-pink_20881_600x450.jpg

http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/208/cache/new-handfish-species-fish-spotted_20879_600x450.jpg


Source:
Nine Fish With “Hands” Found to Be New Species
National Geographic, May 24, 2010

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/photogalleries/100524-new-species-handfish-walk-science-pictures/


Link to Article (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/new-species-fish-with-hands/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Pict ure%29)


EDIT: Changed long link to named link to prevent horizontal scrolling. -Gaillo

[Spectrism]

New species- seal with hands.

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/images/blog_uploads/Me_holding_Parkers_Flipper.JPG

[Festina Lente]

Reminds me of a Batfish:

http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/livescience_bat_fish_02.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeLu2PWJs0

[kregener]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YQamEvYQ7o

And one with feet!

Now if we can only find one with the winning lottery ticket!

[still afloat]

Cool , a fish with hands .
Now all that's left is to see a video of it giving the finger to BP.

[StackerKen]

this cute little guy has hands too.

Mexican walking fish

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/baytraderken/mexican-walking-fish-1.jpg

[Hellsbane]

this cute little guy has hands too.

Mexican walking fish

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/baytraderken/mexican-walking-fish-1.jpg



He not only has hands, he has fingers and toes too.

[Libertarian_Guard]

I'm not seeing any hands here. As a minimal requirement one should be capable of pealing a banana. A more advanced demonstration would be shuffling a deck of cards. Fish and marine mammals have something far less nimble than hands.

[StackerKen]

If you found or developed a Design that worked well....

Would you keep using it?

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

this cute little guy has hands too.

Mexican walking fish

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/baytraderken/mexican-walking-fish-1.jpg


This is a new species that was only discovered for the first time 150 years ago, I believe in some lake in Mexico

Has a cool name, the axotl or something similar

I hear they're difficult to breed?

[Ironfield]

this cute little guy has hands too.

Mexican walking fish

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/baytraderken/mexican-walking-fish-1.jpg


This is a new species that was only discovered for the first time 150 years ago, I believe in some lake in Mexico

Has a cool name, the axotl or something similar

I hear they're difficult to breed?


Not far off with the name Ken,

the little guy is actually called an Axolotl or "Mexican Walking Fish". The Axolotl is an amphibian, more specifically, a salamander. Although they are native to Mexico, Axolotls have become popular as exotic pets around the world. In captivity, they are housed in an aquarium and can have a range of colours. I've only seen them in its pinkish white form though.

-Ironfield

[StackerKen]

this cute little guy has hands too.

Mexican walking fish

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/baytraderken/mexican-walking-fish-1.jpg


This is a new species that was only discovered for the first time 150 years ago, I believe in some lake in Mexico

Has a cool name, the axotl or something similar

I hear they're difficult to breed?


Not far off with the name Ken,

the little guy is actually called an Axolotl or "Mexican Walking Fish". The Axolotl is an amphibian, more specifically, a salamander. Although they are native to Mexico, Axolotls have become popular as exotic pets around the world. In captivity, they are housed in an aquarium and can have a range of colours. I've only seen them in its pinkish white form though.

-Ironfield


Ohh...a salamander...that make sense...that explains the strange gills
Thanks