CSIRO Blog, 08 Jan 2016.

A fish that prefers to walk on its ‘hands’ rather than swim is one of the few species that has survived totally unchanged, since dinosaurs walked the earth. Fifty million years ago, handfish were found trotting across the rivers of the world, but now these shallow bottom dwellers are some of the rarest animals on Earth. The Spotted Handfish, with its unusually large overgrown pectoral fins that look like hands, is the darling of the Derwent estuary and the hero of Hobart. Read the full story at the CSIRO Blog.