Talk:Velvet belly lanternshark

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Date	Process	Result
July 2, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 2, 2009.

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?

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

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]