Using high-speed video, a Temple researcher has revealed the biomechanical tweaks that allow a little-known fish called the leaping blenny to thrive on land. Propelled by a twisting motion that turns their tails into springboards, leaping blennies have colonized rocky intertidal areas across the South Pacific. Biologist S. Tonia Hsieh is one of a handful of researchers to study leaping blennies, formally known as Alticus arnoldorum. "People say that a fish out of water is a dead fish, and that's not necessarily true."