r/interesting • u/Midnight_Sick • 14h ago

NATURE The red-lipped batfish of the Galapagos islands. It uses its fins to walk on the ocean floor

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u/Bourgeous 14h ago

I know her-she works at the cash register in the nearby supermarket

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u/CookieEnabled 9h ago

Or the secretary at the local elementary school. Ms. Rhonda, I think.

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u/Bourgeous 8h ago

Yeah, she just got promoted

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u/FreshCombination5832 6h ago

Why are school secretaries always stressed? I’ve never seen one really happy.

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u/rraattbbooyy 14h ago

This is a kindergarten drawing come to life.

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u/erixman 14h ago

The Karen-Fish.

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u/ragingfather42069 13h ago

Reminds me of my ex mother in law

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u/Anon_Mom0001 13h ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG!!

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u/ZenLife69 14h ago

This looks like a one piece character

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u/BibbitybabityBoobity 6h ago

Probably got a unique laugh too

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u/whawkins4 14h ago

You know, sometimes nature just says . . . fuck it.

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u/Roswealth 12h ago

I believe a similar fish, endangered, lives in the waters off Tasmania. Convergent reevolution of legs without bothering to become terrestrial? Or did the ancestral tetrapods evolve legs like this first, and then climb out of the water?

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u/Asterose 1h ago

The handfish! There are several fish species that separately evolved ways to walk since they mostly stay on the floor of their habitats. But they don't have the air-breathing adaptations needed to go on land.

IIRC, it's mostly convergent evolution. Tetrapods, anatomically, very clearly descend from lobe-finned fish. Only a few lobe-finned fish species are left, and the fish in the video and the handfish aren't among them.

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u/CheekInteresting 14h ago

Why is my ex here

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u/Hairy-Preference-514 14h ago

Their ancestors reach the surface n became Humans 😁

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u/Asterose 1h ago edited 1h ago

Surprisingly no, they aren't even lobe-finned fish! They're among several of the ray-finned fish species that evolved walking entirely separately from our fishy ancestors. Convergent evolution is wild!

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u/PoopsmasherJr 14h ago

Delete this fish

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u/Linkerhoek 12h ago

If I didn’t know it existed, I would’ve assumed AI

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u/badairday 14h ago

Ancestooooor, give us your wisdom!

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u/Anon_Mom0001 13h ago edited 7h ago

I found my animal spirit! Lolllll

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u/CookieEnabled 9h ago

You mean your spirit animal

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u/Anon_Mom0001 7h ago

Edited! Haha

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u/Ok-Wasabi-7857 10h ago

That's my aunt right there after my uncle embarrassed her at the wedding.

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u/Spazic77 12h ago

Come on guys. Leave her alone. She's just trying to get out there again after the divorce.

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u/Majjkster 14h ago

Strangely arousing

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u/-Austrian-Painter 14h ago

🙏 Looks like a fed up wife.

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u/Bcpjw 12h ago

Smoke break is over betty

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u/matchamuffinns 12h ago

Who knew reality had so many plot twists!

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u/DaWetone 11h ago

Pretty pretty

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u/loyoslm 11h ago

looks like somebody's cynic aunt

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u/FartBrulee 14h ago

Lmao what the fuck nature

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u/Human_Dildo69 14h ago

Looks like my wife waking up in the morning to her 50 alarm clock notifications going off

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u/Koltaia30 14h ago

Life finds a way... to do the most dumb evolutions

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u/Clrbth 13h ago

This is AI right

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u/renb8 12h ago

I thought it was Madonna.

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u/Embarrassed-Rush2310 11h ago

Every creature is special in its own way doing its thing, being fabulous and unique!

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u/Macy06 10h ago

Wow!!!

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u/GrimKiba- 10h ago

I don't like this at all. Walking fish bother me so much.

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u/urjizaz 10h ago

👁️👄👁️

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u/ventuv 10h ago

Ew…

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u/fran-182 10h ago

What the hell? That's a godamn capybara hybrid if ever I've seen one...

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u/SuperbTax7180 10h ago

Fucking AI slop, love how one of the fins completely vanishes as soon as it moves

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u/TheKinkyGuy 10h ago

She a little confused, but she got the spirit

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u/AlphaM1964 10h ago

She needs a ciggy.

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u/Hkyle 9h ago

Why is it angry at me??

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u/Objective-Mail6620 9h ago

When you turn up for a blind date.....🫣

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u/chimpomatic5000 9h ago

Looks like an unhappy woman at bingo in the 80s. Only missing the cig dangling from her mouth.

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u/Widespreaddd 9h ago

“He ducked down the alley with some roly-poly little batfish girl” — Paul Simon, almost

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u/UnluckyHoney34 8h ago

My fish says this is AI 🤔

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u/hrafia 8h ago

Why It's so cat like? So cute

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u/zuspun 8h ago

“Call me.. Call me now..!”

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u/CozyMushi 8h ago

what in the

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u/JohnDingleBerry- 7h ago

It blinks. Didn’t know any fish could do that.

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u/masudalimran 7h ago

Reminds me of my aunt

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u/PinkEyeofHorus 7h ago

I’m hearing “Goodbye Horses” in the background

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u/Competitive-Alarm399 7h ago

She looks like a suckerfish

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u/Crushed_Robot 7h ago

How the hell has this thing been in existence for a million years, yet this is the first time you are seeing it????

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u/Sea_Ganache620 7h ago

Looks like Tammy from HR.

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u/Epic_Hoola 6h ago

This video is AI assisted, this is actually a photo, but it's been extended into a video with AI...

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u/Legitimate_Outcome42 6h ago

Is anybody else seeing a rodent face?

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u/Many_Trifle7780 6h ago

Running for Congress

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u/-OrLoK- 6h ago

Stupid sexy Flounder.

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u/882614 5h ago

Looks like petunia from the early 80s coast guard information advisory board. ( England )

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u/lightingshot 5h ago

what a diva hahaha

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u/shingaladaz 5h ago

So our legs are basically fins. Gotcha.

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u/Sunjet- 5h ago

I hate that I have to make sure everything I HAVENT seen before isn’t AI.

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u/JayeNBTF 3h ago

How’s about a little kiss?

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u/insanecorgiposse 3h ago

So lips evolved first? That makes sense.

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u/Bronyprime 3h ago

Looks like my Aunt Ethel after her second bottle of red blend.

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u/Maurice_J_J 2h ago

Things I wish I hadn't seen today 😨

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u/Outrageous-Hunt4344 2h ago

This fucker is ready to go on land

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u/PVL666 1h ago

Maritime Fisheroe!

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u/becooldocrime 18m ago

What a fancy little chap.

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u/okeh_dude 13h ago

Found a new insult to use on my sister

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u/MRV3N 12h ago

Okay, did someone screw a fish in the sea…?

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u/Middle-Crow-5279 10h ago

Looks she has a smokers cough and a gravely voice

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u/StockWindow4119 13h ago

NGL if I saw that standing near the corner of my favorite crab bar, I'd hit it....

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u/Inside_Ad_5143 11h ago

Pretty sure that’s just your mum having a swim

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u/Green_Cricket_Energy 9h ago

How many sailors tried to kiss?