Video: Rare 'walking' pink fish spotted after 22 years in Australia
Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, December 23
An endangered ‘walking’ fish has been spotted after 22 years in Australia.
A rare fish with hands was found in the depths of a marine park off Tasmania’s rugged south-west coast. A member of the anglerfish family, the ‘pink handfish’ was last seen by a recreational diver off the coast of Tasman Peninsula, south-east of Hobart, in 1999, reports ABC news.
A very rare walking fish has been spotted for the first time in 22 years! Was that on your 2021 bingo card? 🐟
We’ve confirmed that the endangered pink handfish has been seen in a marine park off Tasmania’s south-west coast. https://t.co/nYFRsxk7Lf
— CSIRO (@CSIRO) December 23, 2021
Little is known about the pink handfish, but it had been thought it lived in waters between 15 metres to almost 40 metres deep off Tasmania’s east coast — an assumption that has since been overturned.
