Field study shows how sailfish use their bill to catch fish
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A large team of European researchers has finally revealed the purpose of the long, thin, needle-like bill sported by the famous sailfish. It's used, they report in their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, to sneak into fish schools to capture prey unaware, and then to stun and slash to capture food.