{"id":130147,"date":"2022-01-20T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130147"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:44:42","slug":"deep-sea-scientists-discovered-an-ice-fish-breeding-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/deep-sea-scientists-discovered-an-ice-fish-breeding-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea Scientists Discovered an Ice-fish Breeding Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: At which of the following place Deep-sea scientists discovered an Ice-fish Breeding Colony?<\/strong><br>a) Arctic Sea<br>b) Mediterranean Sea<br>c) Weddell Sea (Antarctica)<br>d) Sea of Japan<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Deep-sea scientists discovered an Ice-fish Breeding Colony in Antarctica&#8217;s ice-covered Weddell Sea.<\/li><li>It is a breeding colony of 60 million fish, a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers an area the size of Malta.<\/li><li>This fascinating discovery shows how little knowledge we the humans have about the ocean depths.<\/li><li>The vast colony, believed to be the world&#8217;s largest, is home to the remarkable icefish having scientific name Neopagetopsis ionah.<\/li><li>The species was discovered in February 2021, however, their breeding nests were recently discovered.<\/li><li>The blood of icefish is transparent in color and is the only vertebrates to have no red blood cells.<\/li><li>Their blood does not have hemoglobin to carry oxygen.<\/li><li>It is an evolutionary adaptation as these fish absorb oxygen through their skin.<\/li><li>Icefish are found at depths of 90 m to 200 m.<\/li><li>To survive at such low temperatures, it has evolved an anti-freeze protein in its transparent blood that stops ice crystals from growing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/13\/world\/icefish-colony-discovery-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/13\/world\/icefish-colony-discovery-scn\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: At which of the following place Deep-sea scientists discovered an Ice-fish Breeding Colony?a) Arctic Seab) Mediterranean Seac) Weddell Sea (Antarctica)d) Sea of JapanAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- Deep-sea scientists discovered an Ice-fish Breeding Colony in Antarctica&#8217;s ice-covered Weddell Sea. It is a breeding colony of 60 million fish, a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":130148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-130147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130149,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130147\/revisions\/130149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}