✧✦Catherine✦✧ on Nostr: did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which ...

did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which they pump with gas as they descend into depths. specifically, they can pump it with hyperbaric oxygen at partial pressures of *several hundred atmospheres*

they also pressurize their eyes in the same way

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10.1152/physiologyonline.2001.16.6.287