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title: "#Pelagic Animals & Superpower Traits (11 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Cruising open ocean water columns far from coasts and reefs, built for constant forward swimming. Explore all 11 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
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# #Pelagic Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Cruising open ocean water columns far from coasts and reefs, built for constant forward swimming.

- **Trait Category**: Extreme Biomes
- **Species Count**: 11 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/pelagic/)

## Species With #Pelagic

- [Atlantic Bluefin Tuna](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-bluefin-tuna/) (*Thunnus thynnus*)
  - **Superpower**: Keeps a warm body, dives past 1,000 meters and can cross the Atlantic in under 60 days
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Stereolab (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Calanus Copepod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/calanus-copepod/) (*Calanus finmarchicus*)
  - **Superpower**: Stores energy in a large oil sac of wax esters
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated
  - **Soundtrack**: Steve Roach (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes)
- [Cookiecutter Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cookiecutter-shark/) (*Isistius brasiliensis*)
  - **Superpower**: A glowing underside that lures big animals in, then a spin that carves out a cookie-shaped plug
  - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Dead Or Alive (80s Pop & Dance Anthem)
- [European Storm Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-storm-petrel/) (*Hydrobates pelagicus*)
  - **Superpower**: Runs on stomach oil while incubating (if that oil supplies all its energy, it accounts for 76% of the weight lost each day on the nest), and its chicks can apparently recognize their own body odor
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Tokio Hotel (2000s Pop-Rock & Emo)
- [Mahi-Mahi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mahi-mahi/) (*Coryphaena hippurus*)
  - **Superpower**: Grows over 4 feet long in its first year.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Alphaville (80s Pop & Dance Anthem)
- [Megamouth Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/megamouth-shark/) (*Megachasma pelagios*)
  - **Superpower**: Thought to cruise through krill swarms and suck prey in by pushing its jaws forward
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Mazzy Star (Dream Pop & Shoegaze)
- [Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mola-mola/) (*Mola mola*)
  - **Superpower**: A body with no tail fin, steered by a stiff clavus rudder and driven by synchronized, penguin-style dorsal and anal fin strokes
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable
  - **Soundtrack**: Mulatu Astatke (Ethio-Jazz & Horn of Africa Grooves)
- [Shortfin Mako Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/shortfin-mako-shark/) (*Isurus oxyrinchus*)
  - **Superpower**: Bursts up to 70 km/h and keeps swimming muscles warmer than the surrounding sea
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Charli xcx (2020s Pop & Modern Alt)
- [Swordfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/swordfish/) (*Xiphias gladius*)
  - **Superpower**: A heating tissue in one of its eye muscles that warms the brain and eyes up to 10 to 15 degrees C above the water, one adaptation that lets it swim in depths where the water may be just above freezing
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened
  - **Soundtrack**: Squarepusher (Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle)
- [Wandering Albatross](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wandering-albatross/) (*Diomedea exulans*)
  - **Superpower**: Wingspan of about 3 m, and cruises on tail or side winds using little more energy than a bird resting on land
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable
  - **Soundtrack**: The Specials (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone)
- [Yellowfin Tuna](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yellowfin-tuna/) (*Thunnus albacares*)
  - **Superpower**: Warm swimming muscle: a heat exchanger holding a 10 degrees C temperature difference would typically double the muscle's peak power
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Anna Meredith (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral)

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