Marine Biologist Shows What A Baby Swordfish Looks Like
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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