Exploring the Deep
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The Challenge of Pressure in the Deep Ocean
Deep sea animals don't have gas filled lungs. Or any gas filled space inside them. Their bodies are made of solid tissues and body fluids, liquids,. And those are pretty fundamentally incompressible. So the challenge for life in the deep ocean is actually a molecular one and bio chemical one. High pressure causes problems for proteins folding up into the right shape so that they need to be to work as endymes.
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