Fish living in boiling sulfur

For someone living hell, and for someone - his home: scientists have discovered species of fish, thriving in boiling sere

In 2006, an expedition for the study of a small chain of underwater volcanoes in the Mariana arc between Guam and Japan has made some surprising discoveries. One of the most interesting findings was the pool of molten sulfur, scattered throughout the area. In this inhospitable place the temperature reaches 180 ° C, erupting sulfur and toxic heavy metals. But this place likes to fish species called the sole.

It turned out that the flat as a flounder, fish thrive in this environment. The population density of fish is 100 times more than usual on the continental shelf. So what was the reason for this prosperity of these strange fish? Scientists do not yet know. And no one knows how the fish can live next to the swimming pool boiling poisonous sulfur. Moreover, some of the fish seen lying right in the pool, just floating on the surface of the boiler of boiling sulfur, as if nothing had happened. So: what you might call Hell, sole call home.



via factroom.ru

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