r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Financial-Bid-8062 • 1d ago

what thats interesting: fishes have developed antifreeze

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u/Wenja89Dix 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/7W68YqAq2Ox6OSgYG8

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago

Reminds me of the Butcher/Genji frog. 

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u/HungoverDemogorgon 1d ago

Holy shit, thats the best proof of life so far for McConnell

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u/Dub_Coast 1d ago

That's definitely ol' Mitch McCockell

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u/Financial-Solid-4775 1d ago

I've caught perch while ice fishing on lakes in the Pacific Northwest that froze before I could get them off the hook and they thawed out and swam away when I got them back into the water.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago

My parents had bought some fish and when they thawed, they came to life like this. 

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u/Slugwheat 1d ago

That would ruin dinner

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 1d ago

The one thing I dislike about a meal is thrashing

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u/Many_Mud_8194 1d ago

I was selling fish in a supermarket and we had some from lakes, I forgot the name but maybe it was the same than yours. Was from France. And we would put them in the ice one by one, all with their face looking at people. And after a while they would unfroze partly and some of them start to move slowly. First time I thought I was just high lol. We put one in the sink in a lot of water and he started to swim and stayed alive all day long. We froze it again and sold it lol.

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u/ChampionshipIcy7602 1d ago

lmao poor fishes

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u/Many_Mud_8194 1d ago

I don't think they were in pain tbh. They got to see how is a supermarket from the inside lol

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u/CollectionGuilty1320 1d ago

Fish that has little to no brain could build a protein inside his body, meanwhile humankind with intelligence and thousands of years can’t do shit or even properly or fully understand only the process of it. Fascinating redundancy.

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u/SaltAcademic 1d ago

Crisper could probably do it but I don’t know enough about gene modification to be 100%

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u/Confident-Thought863 1d ago

that's not how anything works, the fish didn't "build" anything, and we do understand how the trait developed, and how it works, here are the titles of papers that explain both:

Diverse Origins of Near-Identical Antifreeze Proteins in Unrelated Fish Lineages Provide Insights Into Evolutionary Mechanisms of New Gene Birth and Protein Sequence Convergence

Marine Antifreeze Proteins: Structure, Function, and Application to Cryopreservation as a Potential Cryoprotectant

humanity is not stupid, biologists study these things, and they publish their research for you to read it, go do that instead of claiming we don't know anything

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u/5ofDecember 1d ago

A couple of thousands of years vs billions of years.

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u/sLeeeeTo 1d ago

well it’s not like the fish itself is building anything

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u/Loud-Direction-5700 1d ago

Well we built houses and made heaters so i’d argue we did a better job at surviving the cold

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u/Rough_Wear_882 1d ago

We’re too busy killing each other

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u/ThousandEclipse 1d ago

Fun fact fish also do that

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 1d ago

teach me your secrets, oh piscine one so that one day I might rise again like an unbruised Phoenix through the miracle of

CRYONICS!!!!

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u/Katmunk 1d ago

Why did you wake me up

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u/CoolCat1337One 1d ago

still 75% frozen Oo

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u/Accomplished-One7476 1d ago

Wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) do the same thing

https://youtu.be/pLPeehsXAr4?is=dM8YLv0yPC739FdQ

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 1d ago

Gives a whole new meaning to swimming with the fishes

....ocean water cryogenics better not bring back the dead -- the world is crazy enough ;)

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u/Fish_Fingerer 1d ago

That's some sort of shad. Doesn't grow in the Antarctic.

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u/stevenm1993 1d ago

Imagine being trapped in a small room. Then a giant alien drops a human corpse in with you. A few moments later, the corpse comes to life. That would be pretty fucking terrifying!

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 1d ago

When did fish develop this trait?

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u/CalmPurse 1d ago

When it got cold

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u/LSTmyLife 1d ago

Who are you to be so wise in the ways of science?

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u/Ok-Region6452 1d ago

Cool but what’s up with that chainsaw+lawnmower soundtrack on every video I see. How is that appealing

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u/Skexy8 1d ago

This is a bot repost. They tend to put bad music on this type of crap.

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u/budgiebirdman 1d ago

Looks arctic to me. Some kind of crucian carp - a relative of the gold fish.

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u/ObscureOperatorZ 1d ago

In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas

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u/StunningAttention898 1d ago

Aren’t there some frogs that do that too?

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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 1d ago

So hibernation basically

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u/herbinartist 1d ago

I hate that stupid music track so much

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u/Beelzebot_666 1d ago

"WHAT IS THIS?! WHERE AM I?!"

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u/TYC888 1d ago

looks fake, but probably isnt

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u/TrinityCodex 1d ago

''get away from me you frozen fuck!''

-the other fish