Researchers at NOAA's (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's) Fisheries Science Research Laboratory in San Diego, have discovered that a fish called an Opah, apparently widely distributed around the world but in this case caught and tagged off the Channel Islands in Southern California, is (sorta) warm-blooded.
Opah were thought to be slow and sluggish swimmers, but they are now known to be fast predators. They don't maintain a set body temperature the way we do, but keep the blood flowing through their muscles at about five degrees C. warmer than the ambient sea temperature.
Apparently their hearts and muscles warm their blood and there's kind of heat exchanger arrangement where blood vessels come near each other so that warmer blood warms cooler oxygenated blood coming from the gills.
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/639...d-fish.htm
Opah were thought to be slow and sluggish swimmers, but they are now known to be fast predators. They don't maintain a set body temperature the way we do, but keep the blood flowing through their muscles at about five degrees C. warmer than the ambient sea temperature.
Apparently their hearts and muscles warm their blood and there's kind of heat exchanger arrangement where blood vessels come near each other so that warmer blood warms cooler oxygenated blood coming from the gills.
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/639...d-fish.htm