Painted frogfish vary greatly in colour and texture, and these ones were covered in sediment. |
So it's possible for a dark brown frogfish with a hairy body to be the very same species as a white frogfish with almost smooth skin. |
When using jet-propulsion, a frogfish appears to levitate and drift along using its fins as stabilizers. |
A male frogfish courts a mature female by spreading all of his fins, jerking his body, and nibbling her as she swaggers across the ocean floor. |
Awkward swimmers, frogfish overcome this problem by using jet propulsion to improve their poor swimming ability. |
The frogfish settled on the bottom and crawled around on its two froglike webbed paws. |