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> Another example:
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> https://www.livescience.com/antifreeze-protein-snailfish-greenland?utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D
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> "Scientists drilling deep into an iceberg off Greenland have discovered a fish with glowing green antifreeze coursing through its veins.
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> "The juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus) contained the "highest expression levels" of antifreeze proteins ever reported, a new study found.
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> "Similar to how antifreeze helps to regulate the temperature of a car's engine in extreme conditions, certain species have evolved to have similar protection, especially those living in frigid habitats such as the polar waters off Greenland.
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> "'The fact that these different antifreeze proteins have evolved independently in a number of different — and not closely related — fish lineages show[s] how critical they are to the survival of these organisms in these extreme habitats," John Sparks, a curator in the AMNH's Department of Ichthyology and co-author of the study, told Live Science in an email.
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> "Snailfish produce antifreeze proteins "like any other protein and then excrete them into their bloodstream," Gruber said. However, snailfish appear to be "making antifreeze proteins in the top 1% of all other fish genes."
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> "This mind-boggling level of antifreeze production could help this species adapt to a subzero environment, according to the statement."
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> Comment: how does natural selection find these necessary complex protein molecules? Not likely. I can 't just grab them off a shelf. Design is a better fit.