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When you and I take a deep breath, we pull air into our lungs. That’s because humans are mammals. But fish aren’t mammals. They usually don’t breathe air. They usually don’t have lungs. That’s what I ...

Build the Fish Gill Look That Makes Your Abs Pop With One Simple Exercise originally appeared on Men's Fitness. If you want to make your serratus anterior muscle look like toned fish gills, there's ...

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I think the gills allow fish to breathe because water goes in them. Because they have holes in their gills so it is like a nose. But I don’t know how they stay alive if we can’t with our nose. Well if ...

A collaborative team of scientists recently found that there is no physiological evidence supporting a leading theory -- which involves the surface area of fish gills -- as to why many fish species ...

To get to the bottom of it, they looked at the fish’s anatomy and physiology and discovered something curious in their gills.

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All animals need oxygen to survive - even if they spend their lives in water. Humans and terrestrial animals inhale air, which is a mix of many gasses and 20 percent of that is oxygen. The process ...

As you sit at your desk and chew your morning muffin, consider the complicated interlocking structure of your jaw. How did you manage to evolve such a thing? What you’re eating through is essentially ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ...