Backwards-walking fish caught on video in the South China Sea

The deep-sea is filled with weird creatures: goblin sharks (Mitsukurina owstoni), vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), and… walking fish? For the first known time, a team of scientists in China filmed a strange, shrimp-like fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group of fish known for  weird anatomy. Their bodies are  covered in bony plates, while stiff free fin rays stick out of its pectoral rays l