Ice Fish Don’t Melt




The researchers found that they warmed the fishes to temperatures above the expected melting point, some ice remained inside their bodies. They tested wild fishes in Antarctica when the normally freezing seawater had warmed up somewhat during summer, and they found that ice remained inside these fishes as well. Proteins bind quickly to ice crystals entering the body of Antarctic notothenioid fishes to corral the ice.

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