Unlike any other shark, the Epaulette has an uncanny ability to walk. It uses its fins as prototype legs to crawl over the exposed reef between rockpools that contain its prey. But no shark can ...

Tempesta said epaulette sharks are called “walking sharks ... around the bottom of the ocean and can even walk over short stretches of land, Tempesta said in an interview.

The aquarium started breeding epaulette sharks in 2009 ... to use their pectoral fins to “walk” across the seafloor and sometimes even stretches of land. “Their name comes from the large ...