The flatfish family provides seafood lovers with a large selection on their menus such as halibuts, flounders, soles, and turbot. The most notable characteristic of a flatfish is its asymmetry, with both eyes lying on the same side of its head. Some flatfish are experts in camouflaging themselves on the seafloor.

As one of the weirdest-looking creatures on the planet, they can also do the weirdest thing fish could do – walk with their fins!

New video analysis uncovers the way flatfish move around the seafloor is similar to that of a millipede.

In order to "walk", the flatfish simply bunch up their fin rays and form a "fin-foot" so that they can use them as contact points to push against the seafloor.

This is similar to how millipedes walk, by sequentially lifting pairs of legs to create a wave that travels backwards along the body, and pushes them forward.