How does a fish live eight kilometres beneath the surface, under pressure equal to a thousand cars stacked on its back, in water so cold and so heavy that the proteins in its body should long since have stopped folding?

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Evolution has engineered a creature that shouldn't exist—a fish that thrives in conditions that would pulverize almost any other organism on Earth. The post How does a fish live eight kilometres beneath the surface, under pressure equal to a thousand cars stacked on its back, in water so cold and so heavy that the proteins in its body should long since have stopped folding? appeared first on Space Daily .