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The only fully warm-blooded fish, built like a dinner plate that commutes to the deep.
means A large round deep-sea fish, silver-pink with red fins, that keeps its whole body warmer than the icy water around it.
from The name's exact root is uncertain — it likely comes from a European word imitating a splash or a local fisherman's term, borrowed into English in the 1700s. Unlike most etymologies, this one hasn't been pinned down with confidence, so lexicographers generally just mark it 'origin unknown.'
- body heat
- Flaps its own pectoral fins to self-heat blood
- also called
- Moonfish, for its round silvery shape
- depth range
- Hunts squid 50 to 500 meters down
- size
- Can weigh over 600 pounds, solo swimmer