PROFESSOR WILLIAM DETRICH and his research on Antartic icefishes was a highlight of a September 19, 2008 Antartic Sun article.

"A brittle skeleton. A complete lack of red blood cells. Yet an ability to survive and thrive in a subfreezing marine environment.  Antarctic icefish would seem to serve as odd specimens for study, a family of fish endemic to the Southern Ocean that probably couldn’t survive anywhere else after spending millions of years adapting and evolving in a freezer-like environment where . . . "
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