Saturday, 16 February 2019

How do skates of the deep survive the crushing pressure?

In this Satrudays edition of Sharkbites Saturdays we look at a fish that isn’t a shark at all! Here we look at how skates, the cousins of sharks and rays, use an interesting physiological mechanism to survive the pressure of the deep ocean.

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