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This is the bizarre moment a stunned diver spotted the "strangest fish in the Caribbean" walking along the seabed.

Marine expert Mickey Charteris discovered the shortnose batfish in a muddy channel near the island of Roatán, Honduras.

And despite spending years chronicling sea life in the region, he said the oddball creature is the weirdest of the lot.

"It's hands down the strangest fish in the Caribbean," he said after spotting the freak of nature skipping through a gulley called French Key Cut.

"It walks slowly searching for prey like crabs and small fishes, but can swim with its tail if it gets spooked. "It resembles a lump of brown sponge that mated with a unicorn."

In his underwater footage, the spooky fish can be seen with a horn on its head, pushing itself along the seabed with its fins.

Charteris, an expert on marine species, said it looked like a dark wedge from above but had red lips when seen from below. "It's seen very seldom," said the 50-year-old author of 'Caribbean Reef Life'.

"You have to go out of your way to dive in silty channels and shallow sandy flats where there is usually less visibility. "Normal divers would be very lucky to find one out on the reef - once every few years if you dive every day.

"We had heard of a few in that area and went specifically to try to record it. They are not common at all."

Unlike most species, the shortnose batfish doesn't have a swim bladder - the gas-filled organ that allows many fish to float without swimming.

"So they must remain on the bottom with no buoyancy control," said Charteris. "This keeps them low to the ground and close to prey that it sneaks up on."

The shortnose batfish or Ogcocephalus nasutus is native to the Caribbean and is one of only a handful of fish that adapted to walk.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13177517/spooky-fish-uses-fins-as-legs-to-walk-caribbean/

If Nigerians catch this one, them go still look for how to cook am chop.

Everything na food for here

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Zanku fish
Leg work fish

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Ugly fish

End time fish.

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I don't know if its just me, but this 'fish' looks scary

Una get time sha. Kontinue

Righteousness89:
[s]Mysteries upon Must in this Mysterious 2020 and Mysterious times...

Eyes are yet to see the Mysteries and Creatures resident In the sea..
A Day is Coming when these Creatures would come out live to carry their assignment on the Earth..

In that time, the Kings, the Mighty and all who are on Earth will say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

We are right in the End of the End of times.
Thisday is our opportunity to set our Ways right with God Almighty to avoid Super stories and Stories that touch the Heart
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Rubbish... As usual.

All kinds of things can be found under the ocean including wealth.
If you know you know.

Opin aiye ti de!

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lol..... life sha.... Mr righteousness I sight u

How I wish I can get this fish for my fresh Fisher man soup,my weekend for just sure.

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Not strange tho! Just that their kind are rare!

There are more specie of fishes that uses their fins to at least lift their bodies from floor level.


Las Las the fish go still sweet to chop!

Righteousness89:
[s]Mysteries upon Must in this Mysterious 2020 and Mysterious times...

Eyes are yet to see the Mysteries and Creatures resident In the sea..
A Day is Coming when these Creatures would come out live to carry their assignment on the Earth..

In that time, the Kings, the Mighty and all who are on Earth will say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

We are right in the End of the End of times.
Thisday is our opportunity to set our Ways right with God Almighty to avoid Super stories and Stories that touch the Heart
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Rubbish... As usual

God is great
Fish with horn

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Dididrumz:
If Nigerians catch this one, them go still look for how to cook am chop.

Everything na food for here

Is in your place everything is food

Righteousness89:
Mysteries upon Must in this Mysterious 2020 and Mysterious times...

Eyes are yet to see the Mysteries and Creatures resident In the sea..
A Day is Coming when these Creatures would come out live to carry their assignment on the Earth..

In that time, the Kings, the Mighty and all who are on Earth will say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

We are right in the End of the End of times.
Thisday is our opportunity to set our Ways right with God Almighty to avoid Super stories and Stories that touch the Heart

Fake prophet!

End time Fish

Wetin them call am. Fish na food to be eaten!!! FYI that fish really looks like a demon with horn

Dididrumz:
If Nigerians catch this one, them go still look for how to cook am chop.

Everything na food for here

Wonderful

izuch:
Make E make mistake cross Nigeria shore line na inside pot straight, Nigerians wey dey chop decaying whale

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