First warm-blooded fish

First warm-blooded fish

Last updated: October 4, 2017 at 17:53 pm

In a paper published on May 14, 2015, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describe how the opah (Lampris guttatus) circulates warm blood throughout its entire body.

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NOAA Fisheries
NOAA Ocean Service

Fisheries biologist Nicholas Wegner of NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, lead author of the a 2015 research paper that discovered the unique warm-blooded characteristics of the opah. Photo by NOAA Ocean Service (Public Domain)

Opah (Lampris guttatus) (Public Domain)

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