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First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by DaimlerBen(m): 11:46pm On May 15, 2015

The car-tire-size opah is striking enough thanks to its rotund, silver body. But now, researchers have discovered something surprising about this deep-sea dweller: It's got warm blood.
That makes the opah (Lampris guttatus ) the first warm-blooded fish ever discovered.
Most fish are ectotherms, meaning they require heat from the environment to stay toasty. The opah, as an endotherm, keeps its own temperature elevated even as it dives to chilly depths of 1,300 feet (396 meters) in temperate and tropical oceans around the world.
"Increased temperature speeds up physiological processes within the body," study leader Nicholas Wegner, a biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, told Live Science. "As a result, the muscles can contract faster, the temporal resolution of the eye is increased, and neurological transmissions are sped up. This results in faster swimming speeds, better vision and faster response times."
The result, Wegner said, is a fast-swimming fish with an advantage for hunting slow, cold-blooded prey...

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Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by bankai2015(f): 12:07am On May 16, 2015
Guy, No be plastic be this undecided
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by DaimlerBen(m): 12:18am On May 16, 2015
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by sarmiie(m): 9:43am On May 16, 2015
I sincerely hope that this isn't a hoax....
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by sinaj(f): 10:03am On May 16, 2015
shocked shocked shocked


I hpe itz edible tongue
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by Awoofawo(m): 12:31pm On May 16, 2015
Me too
sinaj:
shocked shocked shocked


I hpe itz edible tongue
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by sinaj(f): 1:22pm On May 16, 2015
Awoofawo:
Me too

lol awoof grin

long throat tongue
Re: First Warm-blooded Fish Found! by Awoofawo(m): 1:29pm On May 16, 2015
sinaj:



lol awoof grin


long throat tongue

She na because I no call say make you com chop, make you dey vex and para like dis.

*shift small*

com siddon for my side, enjoy peppersoup made from the fish. grin tongue

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