Snailfish off the coast of Greenland have evolved a clever trick to live in icy water.
Researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York wanted to know how snailfish in an iceberg habitat located off the coast of Eastern Greenland survive in water around 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit . They sequenced the RNA of a juvenilesnailfish—and found that the fish rely on a high level of special proteins to limit the formation of ice crystals inside their bodies.
Gruber, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor at CUNY, along with co-author John Sparks observed snailfish glowing green and red during an August 2019 expedition. This was the
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