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You Can’t Escape Lice, Even 6,500 Feet Below the Ocean – The New York Times
A species of insect tags along with elephant seals as they spend months at sea, enduring the crushing pressure changes of the mammals’ dives.
It was fascinating for me to see that they survived the high pressure, said Claudio Lazzari, an insect physiologist at the University of Tours in France and a co-author of the study. It shows that these lice can cope. We can exclude that they just die.
The researchers then exposed surviving lice to a water pressure higher or lower than what they were subject to earlier.
The idea was to reproduce the situation that lice would experience when their host dives through different pressure levels, D…
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