Marine biologist Juan C. Levesque captured a stunning close-up of a tiny baby swordfish on his finger tip. “Gladiator of the sea”, the minuscule creature can be measured in millimetres, but when fully grown, reaches 3 meters in length!
“Born with a short snout and prickly scales, swordfish develop rapidly,” Levesque writes in his article on the species. “Researchers in the Mediterranean Sea estimated the average growth rate of post-larvae/juvenile swordfish at somewhere between one-eighth and one-quarter of an inch per day.”
The baby swordfish might look totally defenseless, but like Levesque writes, “these fish are fighters from day one.” Don’t let this baby fool you – he already feeds on other fish larvae!
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To those who say they're killing it.....I'm trusting the marine biologist knows what they're doing
Bet that was painful giving birth to that little bugger, but they are getting so rare we need to look after our sea world creatures.
To those who say they're killing it.....I'm trusting the marine biologist knows what they're doing
Bet that was painful giving birth to that little bugger, but they are getting so rare we need to look after our sea world creatures.
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