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First Warm-Blooded Fish Found (opah or moonfish)
Live Science ^
| May 14, 2015
| Stephanie Pappas
Posted on 05/15/2015 4:07:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
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 every 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: endotherm; fish; moonfish; opah; warmblooded; warmbloodedfish
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To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
I didn’t even know it was lost!
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05/15/2015 4:11:32 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
To: EveningStar
Or did you mean Opa! fish?
To: Larry Lucido
I don’t know how to work this website well yet, someone has to do something with a picture of oprah.
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05/15/2015 4:16:52 PM PDT
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dp0622
To: dp0622
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:20:47 PM PDT
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EEGator
To: dp0622
Also, on the home page, click on HTMLSanbox and see how to do things with posting.
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:21:54 PM PDT
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EEGator
To: EEGator
I thought that was moochelle!!! lol.
I’m a racissssssssssss!!!!
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05/15/2015 4:22:39 PM PDT
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dp0622
To: EveningStar
To: EEGator
thanks. but I still want to wait a while before I start getting fancy :)
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:24:12 PM PDT
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dp0622
To: dp0622
Okay, but now you know, and knowing is half the battle...
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:26:51 PM PDT
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EEGator
To: Larry Lucido
To: EveningStar
Wow, the second Opah fish thinking that could have been me.
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:29:01 PM PDT
by
Leep
("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
To: dp0622
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:33:17 PM PDT
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PROCON
(CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
To: EveningStar
I’m pretty sure that Japanese Chiefs are at this very minute working up a new Menu
TT
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:34:52 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:36:16 PM PDT
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dp0622
To: EveningStar
"This is a cool innovation by these animals that gives them a competitive edge. The concept of counter-current heat exchange was invented in fish long before [humans] thought of it."So the fish actually invented it and gave it to themselves? This is what passes for accurate science by a no doubt evolutionist. Nonsense.
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05/15/2015 4:39:35 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: EveningStar
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:48:44 PM PDT
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US_MilitaryRules
(The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
To: EveningStar
A beautiful Fish! Looks like its covered in stars!
To: EveningStar
Available from honolulufish.com
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posted on
05/15/2015 5:27:28 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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