There is a transparent fish with a transparent blood

Recently, Japan has been caught and put on public display in the aquarium amazing "ice fish" - the only one of its kind this kind. Her blood contains almost no hemoglobin - the substance, which imparts the red color of blood.

Satoshi Tada, a specialist of the "Marine Park" in Tokyo, says that is not known about this fish is almost nothing. In Japan, she came through the incidental catch of its fishermen, who brought fish and live in Tokyo. Fortunately, managed to catch a few individuals, both males and females, and they have already given offspring in captivity.





Scientists are puzzled by the amount of hemoglobin in the body of the fish and how she manages to do without it. In icefish fish unusually big heart, and she uses blood plasma for the circulation of oxygen. While, as in most living organisms in the body contains at least 45% of hemoglobin or other pigment responsible for oxygen transport in the body of the substance iced fish - only one percent.





Studies have shown that these fish have to spend twice as much energy for a second heart attack than the normal type of hemoglobin fractions. It is believed that ice fish live and thrive in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean, as its waters are rich in oxygen that can be absorbed and spread through the body directly through the plasma.



via factroom.ru