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Good articleVelvet belly lanternshark has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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July 2, 2009Good article nomineeListed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the velvet belly lantern shark (pictured) has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc?
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"Detoxifying" zinc?

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Since when has zinc been toxic? Stonemason89 (talk) 00:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Zinc, like many other metals, is harmful in high concentrations. See zinc article. -- Yzx (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eating the liver

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So if a person has near liver failure (no cure other than transplant) and eats this fish's liver, his/her liver will become okay? Like a medicine? --33rogers (talk) 02:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, that would not happen. -- Yzx (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]