How Swordfish Use their Swords to Hunt! ⚔️🐟

Ever wondered if swordfish use their swords to spear their prey? 🤔
Swordfish, marlin, and similar species are the fastest fish in our oceans. 🌊💨 They accelerate with incredible speed and zoom through schools of prey. But do they really spear fish on the tip of their swords?
Actually, they don't! Instead, swordfish use their swords like a club to knock out prey. 🏏🐠 Sailfish have serrated edges to slash their prey, while swordfish have smooth, flat swords perfect for slapping.
And did you know? They have a special internal heating system for their eyes, improving their vision! 👀🔥

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[GandalfTheTsaagan]

Fun fact: both dolphins and Ichthyosaurs converged into the sword-snouted speedsters! Funnly, their most notorious members are each named Eurhinodelphis and Eurhinosaurus respectively, which are very fitting names if you know what they mean.

[Jaycobb]

I have a 40 year old book that my dad bought when he was like 10 and it says that (at that time) we didn't truly know what they use their sword nose for, it said "perhaps even stabbing?" but anyone with a common sense would realize that it would be an issue to eat something stuck to your nose. At least I hope most people can realize this

[jurgenolivieira]

Actually, they do use it for stabbing. There are YT videos where fishers are catching Humboldt squid. And while cathing them they are attacked by swordfish that make a stab runs directlly inyo the squid and piercing them with their sword and then staking them off when they het stuck. Which makes sense because you don't want to have living giant Humboldt anywhere near you face.