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Mariana snailfish survives 8,000m deep with TMAO
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The Mariana snailfish lives nearly 8,000 metres down in the Mariana Trench, where pressure is roughly 800 times sea level. Its bones are partly unossified, and its cells are packed with TMAO, a molecule that keeps proteins from collapsing under extreme pressure.
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