沖縄美ら海水族館がアカマンボウの人工ふ化に世界で初めて成功

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is July thirty-first. An aquarium in Okinawa has done something no one in the world had ever done: it hatched the babies of a big, beautiful ocean fish called the opah. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down, sentence by sentence.

The Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa succeeded, for the first time in the world, in hatching the babies of a fish called the opah from eggs, by human hands.

It means success. With the verb after it, it becomes to succeed.

The opah is a big fish with a round shape. Its body is silver, and its fins are red and very beautiful.

It means round.

And the opah is the only fish in the world whose whole body is warmer than the sea water around it.

It means warm.

The aquarium staff raised the eggs with great care, looking after them every day until the babies were born.

It means care, or looking after someone.

The newborn babies are about seven millimeters long, with thin, transparent bodies.

It means transparent, or see-through.

The aquarium says there is still a lot we don't know about big ocean fish, so this research is very important.

It means research, or study.

Let's listen to the whole story one more time.

Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

About seven millimeters — smaller than your fingernail.

Warmer. It is the only fish in the world whose whole body stays warmer than the sea water.

That's all for today. An aquarium in Okinawa became the first in the world to hatch baby opah, a big warm-bodied ocean fish, and the tiny transparent babies are now on display. Thanks for listening, and see you tomorrow.