00:00Near-freezing deep-ocean water disrupts the nervous systems of ordinary marine life.
00:05How does the abyssal rat tail survive in near-freezing depths that would shock standard biology?
00:11Standard biology textbooks emphasize warm blood or thick blubber as shields against freezing.
00:17It restructures its cellular membranes with specialized lipids,
00:21keeping neurons fluid and functional in freezing depths.
00:24These specialized lipids maintain membrane fluidity in sub-zero water,
00:30protecting the brain, where ordinary deep-sea fish would suffer neural failure.
