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Opah: First Discovered Warm-Blooded Fish

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Molly Solomon

Published May 16, 2015 at 12:01 AM HST

NOAA Fisheries West Coast — NOAA Fisheries biologist Nick Wegner holds captured opah.

It’s not just mammals and birds that belong to the warm blooded family. Opah is now believed to be the world’s first known fish to be completely warm-blooded. That’s according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. HPR’s Molly Solomon has more.

Wegner’s findings are published in the recent issue of Science.