opah


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Synonyms for opah

large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

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The opah's secret first started to come out when NOAA researcher and lead author Nicholas Wegner looked at a gill sample and noticed something intriguing.
The opah's ability to keep its heart warm is unique, as this gives it a major competitive advantage.
Pectoral muscles work a lot in the opah, warming blood that eventually flows through the gill heat exchanger.
Tagging studies show opah spend more time in deep, cold water than albacore tuna, which don't have a heart-warming gill system.
Based on recovered data, our conjecture is that the tag was attached to the live opah for the first 23 days.
Opah was among the selection of fresh fish Kohn took to Cologne.