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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?

Tuesday, July 28, 2026Source: Space Daily

In August 2022, a baited camera descended into the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan and recorded a small juvenile snailfish at 8,336 metres. The observation, later described in Deep-Sea Research P…

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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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