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Where it lives: Western Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Labrador in Canada to North Carolina, in waters from near the shore to depths of almost 1,300 feet (400 meters). What it eats: Crustaceans such as ...

The deep sea is filled with creatures adapted to intense environments, and new research describes how biofluorescent snailfish near Greenland use antifreeze proteins to keep themselves alive in frigid ...

Flight, camouflage, and super speed are just a few skills that would be science fiction for humans but natural for many other creatures on Earth. For the snailfish dwelling in Arctic waters, their ...

For 50 years, scientists have known that some Arctic and Antarctic fish survive the ultracold depths by producing “antifreeze” proteins in their bodies to protect against the subzero temperatures. Now ...

Monika Bleszynski is a research scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Denver. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Many people associate a fresh snowfall with pleasures ...

Scientists drilling deep into an iceberg off Greenland have discovered a fish with glowing green antifreeze coursing through its veins. The juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus) contained the ...

Anyone who has experienced freezer burn knows that ice crystals can be a problem at low temperatures. Ice crystals’ jagged edges can do more than just ruin the texture of your ice cream, however. At a ...

New research based on an expedition to the icy waters off Greenland reveals soaring levels of antifreeze proteins in a species of tiny snailfish, underlying the importance of this unique adaptation to ...

An increase of just 2 degrees centigrade could devastate “anti-freeze” fish in the Southern Oceans. Nototheniods is a species of fish that uses glycoproteins as an anti-freeze to survive in the ...

A tiny fish that lives in the icy waters off the coast of Greenland may be unassumingly small, but scientists have found it’s exceptional in more ways than one. The variegated snailfish is full of ...