It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At the deepest point, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is greater than the weight of an elephant on every square inch of your body. Yet Earth's deepest places are home to life uniquely suited to these challenging conditions.
In a recent study published in Science, researchers took the deepest look yet at how cells have adapted to life in the abyss. They discovered that the membranes of comb jellies that reside in the depths are made of lipid molecules with completely different shapes than those of their shallow-water counterparts.
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