Mammoths Had Anti-Freeze in Their Blood
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Mammoths had a form of “anti-freeze” blood to keep their bodies supplied with oxygen at freezing temperatures. Nature Genetics reports that scientists “resurrected” a woolly mammoth blood protein to come to their finding. This protein, […]
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Hmm, wonder how that frozen mammath they found ended up like that?
Wait, just because it’s blood is able to carry oxygen at below freezing temperatures doesnt mean it’s tissue cant freeze right?
I heard about some frogs that can survive being frozen because their cells dont crystallize when frozen.
I don’t know but it’s strange that we’ve found so many frozen omammoths but not saber tooth tigers and other megafauna.