
From the Vault: Creature with the Crystal Skin
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The Translucent Fishes
The crocodile ice fish are the only known vertebrates to lack hemoglobin in their blood as adults. Their blood sometimes described as white blood or translucent blood or transparent blood this is because their blood is lacking hemoglobin and it's not like milk coming out of their bodies that was a mike white blood yeah that was milk. This reminds me of certain spirits uh alcohols that you'll find that have kind of an opay milky consistency without being like that white but anyway as pointed out by sittle and o'brien in wind bad things happen to good fish excellent title published in journal of experimental biology in 2006.
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