{"id":154240,"date":"2023-01-03T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-worlds-oldest-and-deepest-lake-is-home-to-cannibalistic-fish"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T08:22:18","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-and-deepest-lake-is-home-to-cannibalistic-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-worlds-oldest-and-deepest-lake-is-home-to-cannibalistic-fish","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Oldest And Deepest Lake Is Home To Cannibalistic Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-oldest-and-deepest-lake-is-home-to-cannibalistic-fish2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s oldest lake can be found in southeastern Siberia where it\u2019s believed to have existed for around 25 million years. As well as being the great great grandad of lakes, Baikal is also the deepest at 1,700 meters (5,600 feet). The impressive accolade means it\u2019s home to around 20 percent of the world\u2019s unfrozen freshwater reserves, and in a pond that massive you can expect a fish or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/how-the-climate-crisis-is-changing-the-worlds-largest-lakes-58458\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Baikal<\/a> is known as the \u201cGalapagos of Russia\u201d for the many weird and diverse species that call it home. Despite being covered by a thick layer of ice for five months each year, the ecosystem that has developed in the lake is astonishing and like few others. It is estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/over-100-dead-seals-wash-ashore-at-the-worlds-deepest-lake-44509\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">80 percent<\/a> of plants and animals that live in it are found nowhere else on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is the Baikal oilfish, also known as the golomyankas. They\u2019re scale-less fish with translucent bodies that can stretch to around 21 centimeters (8.3 inches). There are two species in the <em>Comephorus <\/em>genus, <em>C. baikalensis <\/em>and <em>C. dybowski<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s oldest lake can be found in southeastern Siberia where it\u2019s believed to have existed for around 25 million years. As well as being the great great grandad of lakes, Baikal is also the deepest at 1,700 meters (5,600 feet). The impressive accolade means it\u2019s home to around 20 percent of the world\u2019s unfrozen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}