[HN Gopher] Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seaf...
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Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor,
researchers discover
Author : wglb
Score : 47 points
Date : 2024-09-28 02:03 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (phys.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
| james_pm wrote:
| The latest episode of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks had a very
| excellent segment on this odd creature (amongst other topics).
| It's a fantastic weekly science show available as a podcast.
|
| https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-plastic-we-need-to-un...
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| Sea robins are the bane of my existence. I just try to make an
| honest living [0] catching flounder and (hopefully!) stripers and
| these bums keep eating the bait and making their stupid noises.
| AT LEAST FIGHT WHEN I HAVE YOU ON THE LINE YOU LAZY FISH
|
| [0] Not really my living don't worry...
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| I heard that they're tasty. Or at least that's what the dude in
| the boat passing by said when I held one up and yelled, "do you
| know what this is?"
| buildsjets wrote:
| They are not bad to eat, but not worth the effort to clean.
| Very little usable meat in the tail, and there is a double
| row of bones you have to filet out. And the meat is kind of
| translucent green until you cook it, then it turns white. But
| so do other fish like lingcod and some rockfish.
| jcgrillo wrote:
| You also need to watch out for the spines on their back,
| they're venomous. I don't think it's super poisonous but
| it'll not be pleasant to get poked by one.
| buildsjets wrote:
| Super pedantic note, venemous and poisonous are not the
| same thing. It's possible to eat/drink venom and not be
| poisoned, so long as it does not enter your bloodstream
| through a cut or ulcer.
|
| And yes, been poked by a sea robin many a time, if they
| get you deeply your whole hand will swell up.
|
| And speaking of poisonous sea life, growing up, we used
| to catch and cook pufferfish tails on a regular basis.
| Delicious deep fried. The variety we had (northern
| puffers, very cute) were not as toxic as the species used
| for Fugu but still has poisons in the skin and organs. No
| one ever taught us to avoid the organs or that they were
| toxic, but I seem to have survived 50 spins around the
| sun without adverse impact.
|
| https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/one-oddest-and-
| tasti...
| pvaldes wrote:
| This is known since decades so, what adds the new discovery
| exactly?
| ravenstine wrote:
| I don't know. Articles with these kinds of headlines don't seem
| to even try to justify themselves anymore.
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