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09/04/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Goldfish manufacture alcohol in their own cells to lower their biological freezing temperature in frigid waters

Goldfish fill their bodies with alcohol to survive for days (even months) in oxygen-free frozen water. Evolutionary physiologists say that they have now discovered the mechanism in which the fish — and their wild relatives, the crucian carp — are able to live in an environment where most vertebrate animals would die within minutes. Typically, […]

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