A Norwegian Bay Was So Cold That Thousands Of Fish Were Flash-Frozen
While everyone in the United States was moaning and groaning last week about the insufferably cold temperatures, other parts of the world were intensely frigid too.
Take the small Norwegian island of Lovund, for instance, where thousands of
The website posted a photo taken by photographer Ingolf Kristiansen of a school of saithe, a type of codfish, frozen in place close to the shore.
Since only the top layer of lakes, ponds, and other large bodies of water typically freeze, fish and other sea creatures usually able to survive winters by swimming beneath the icy surface. (Some polar fish even produce antifreeze molecules to reduce the freezing point of their bodily fluids).
These saithe weren't so lucky. A fish expert at
Ingolf Kristiansen/Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
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