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As they examined the video footage they'd captured via drone, they noticed something unexpected: the stripes on individual marlins got obviously brighter as a fish moved in for an attack.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

Huge marlins were a bit disconcerting, Harrison admits, since the team had heard the fish had a proclivity for trying to poke holes in boats with their spearlike bills.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

The sailors have enjoyed seeing dolphins, turtles and marlins and, for three weeks, they did not see another boat.

From BBC • May 1, 2021

Fishermen strung huge marlins up by their tails.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2020

Fish gathered to look at us—a school of barracudas, some curious marlins.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan