Sentences with phrase «frigid waters because»

Antarctic cod prosper in frigid waters because their blood contains glycoproteins that act like antifreeze.

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Frigid cold weather is a good time to do this, because you'll welcome having that oven heating for a few hours: You roast the bones once with onions and garlic for an hour, and then slow roast them for another three hours, covered in water.

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

Fifthly, because the Arctic Ocean is always frigid and full of ice, it is always around the same temperature... that of ice water (ice seawater)... during the entire Holocene.

Early in the 19th century, scientists began to speculate that the Earth, surrounded by the frigid vacuum of space, was habitable because its atmosphere contained special molecules like CO ₂ and water vapor, molecules that can absorb heat rays emanating from the Earth and thereby trap its heat.

Alarmists have eventually evolved to crediting warming with producing greater snowfall, because of increased moisture but the snow events in recent years have usually occurred in colder winters with high snow water equivalent ratios in frigid arctic air.