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this is so freaking cool. A fully warm blooded fish was just discovered in the deep sea off California. It lives where water temperatures are super cold and it keeps itself 4-5 degrees above the water temperature enabling it to have a massive advantage over all its prey whose metabolism is limited by the temperature.
here's a picture:
and here's the link to the article:
Oh what up!
"Researchers first suspected that something might be strange about the opah after analyzing a sample of the fish's gill tissue. According to the new study, published today (May 14) in the journal Science, the blood vessels in the tissue are set up so that the vessels carrying cool, oxygenated blood from the gills to the body are in contact with the vessels carrying warm, deoxygenated blood from the body to the gills. As a result, the outgoing blood warms up the incoming blood, a process called counter-current heat exchange.
"There has never been anything like this seen in a fish's gills before," Wegner said in a statement. "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."
I love how fat that fucking fish is, and how because it's a fatass, it's somehow faster. The ocean is backwards as fuh.
fresh_princeyour mom breaths through gills
and yet she's still smarter than your dumb ass...man you're fucking stupid. you don't know the difference between a fish and a mammal...you don't know the difference between breath and breathe. what's it like to be a dumb shit? it's ok, sunshine. there's a place in this world for everyone.
Barefootin_Fiendand yet she's still smarter than your dumb ass...man you're fucking stupid. you don't know the difference between a fish and a mammal...you don't know the difference between breath and breathe. what's it like to be a dumb shit? it's ok, sunshine. there's a place in this world for everyone.